Cutting child mortality by half by 2015 is “still possible,” says Unicef

UNICEF assistance for child nutrition

By the end of this year, after 9 years of operation, UNICEF will have shipped, or allocated for shipment, a total of about 700,000,000 lb. of dried skim milk. In addition, it will have allocated the equivalent of over E3,5oo,ooo for milk-conservation projects. The purpose of this paper is to present some points of interest from a nutritional point of view on how and why this was done, together ...

Child-Mortality by Dr. Pfeiffer of Weimar

year among a certain number of livinginhabitants of a community or state. Of it is usual to calculate this proportion per 1,000 inhabitants. The birth-figure and the death-figure are of opposite significance in estimating the movement of a population. The smaller the birth-figure and the larger the death-figure> the more favourable is it for development, as then the increase by the births occur...

Is noninvasive ventilation still underused by physicians?

UNICEF Côte d'Ivoire - Factsheet on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

A Grand Convergence in Mortality is Possible: Comment on Global Health 2035

The grand challenge in global health is the inequality in mortality and life expectancy between countries and within countries. According to Global Health 2035, the Lancet Commission celebrating the 20th anniversary of the World Development Report (WDR) of 1993, the world now has the unique opportunity to achieve a grand convergence in global mortality within a generation. This article comments...