Background. India accounts for 24% to all under-five mortality in the world. Residence in rural area, poverty and low levels of mother's education are known confounders of under-five mortality. Since two-thirds of India's population lives in rural areas, mothers employed in agriculture present a particularly vulnerable population in the Indian context and it is imperative that concerns of this ...

data, information and materials were contributed by Alison Greig (who compiled the raw data on vitamin A supplementation coverage for The State of the World's Children), Nyein Nyein Lwin (who calculated the regional and global vitamin A coverage for The State of the World's Children), Amanda Palmer (who assembled the programme data and database, and drafted the report) and Josephine Rajasegera ...

BACKGROUND Tete Province, Mozambique has experienced chronic food insecurity and a dramatic fall in livestock numbers due to the cyclic problems characterized by the floods in 2000 and severe droughts in 2002 and 2003. The Province has been a beneficiary of emergency relief programs, which have assisted > 22% of the population. However, these programs were not based on sound epidemiological dat...

BACKGROUND The under-five mortality rate (the probability of dying between birth and age 5 y, also denoted in the literature as U5MR and (5)q(0)) is a key indicator of child health, but it conceals important information about how this mortality is distributed by age. One important distinction is what amount of the under-five mortality occurs below age 1 y ((1)q(0)) versus at age 1 y and above (...