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| Child births per 1000 inhabitants in one year |
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| Define infant mortality and under five mortality rate |
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Infant mortality - deaths within one year per thousand live births.
Under five mortality rate - children who die before reaching five years per 1000 live births
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| Define total fertility rate |
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| The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if (1) she were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through her lifetime, and (2) she were to survive from birth through the end of her reproductive life. It is obtained by summing the single-year age-specific rates at a given time. |
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WHO estimates that about 12 million children die each year in the world. Malnutrition is an underlying factor which causes to about 55% of all those child deaths.
What are the four other major direct causes of child deaths globally? |
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Neonatal causes
Diarrhoea
Pneumonias
Malaria
Congenital disorders |
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| There are vaccins available against small-pox, tuberculosis and measles. Yet only small-pox is eradicated. Why has it not been possible to eradicate the two other diseases? |
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