birth and death indicators were examined through retrospective surveys conducted in 1985 and 1987 in the islamic republic of lran, reviewing 1984 and 1986 events, to obtain infant mortality rate (imr) and other necessary indicators for health planning and evaluation. comparison between 1985 and 1987 surveys revealed: 1. no major change in crude death rate ( 6.3 per 1000 in 1987 survey) had occu...

BACKGROUND Children who present to the emergency department following an apparent life-threatening event (ALTE) often appear well, have a normal physical examination, and usually do well. The incidence of mortality following an event appears to occur infrequently, but has not been well described. However, it has been our experience that children who are victims of occult child abuse have a high...

INTRODUCTION Paediatric HIV infection significantly contributes to child morbidity and mortality in southern Africa. In Malawi as in most countries in the region, care of HIV-exposed children is constrained by the lack of area-specific information on their risk to dying and morbidity. This research estimates and compares morbidity and mortality events between HIV-exposed and -unexposed under-fi...

Under-five mortality rate is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five, if current age-specific mortality rates be continued. Under-5 mortality, a Millennium Development Goal indicator, is a leading indicator of child health and overall development. This indicator measures child survival. It also, reflects the social, economic and environmental conditions i...

the experiment was conducted to determine the effects of different photoperiods and darkness on the growth and survival of juvenile catla catla in the laboratory for 90 days. fishes were divided into four aquaria (10 fish per aquarium), and subjected to different photoperiod regimes of 8 hours light: 16 hours dark (8l:16d), 16 hours light: 8 hours dark (16l:8d), continuous light (24l:0d) and co...

introduction all nations are striving for development. economic development is one of the main parts of development process, but not all of it. populations health is one of the main factors of economic development, and child’s mortality is one of the main factors of population health status. the aim of this study is investigating the role of socioeconomic disparties in under 5 mortality in east...