Child mortality is the death of children in their first 5 years of life. According to an estimate by UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank, in a year, 2.4 millions child deaths can be prevented for 1.92 billion $US (an average of 800 $US for each child preserved).[1]
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^ Report by Kul C. Gautam, Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
Child Survival is a field of public health concerned with reducing child mortality. ... is the death of infants in the first year of life. ... The United Nations Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that all 191 UN member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. ... UNICEF Logo The United Nations Childrens Fund or UNICEF (Arabic: ; French: ; Spanish: ) was established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 11, 1946. ...
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During that period, substantial declines in childmortality were observed in all the countries, even though the level of mortality and the pace of the decline varied from case to case.
Direct estimates of infant and childmortality were also derived from maternity history data to assess consistency and to arrive at reasonable conclusions concerning the levels and trends of infant and childmortality.
The fall in infant mortality may be attributed to the large-scale immunization of children from the early 1980s, development of the health infrastructure at the grassroots level and increased awareness of health care issues among the population through the intervention of mass communications channels.
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