Why Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance?

Scott F. Dowell; Anita Zaidi; Penny Heaton

doi:10.1093/cid/ciz542

Why Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance?

Scott F. Dowell, Anita Zaidi, Penny Heaton

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Abstract

Recognizing the need for better primary data on the causes of global child mortality, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation made an unusually long funding commitment toward a surveillance system using pathology to identify opportunities to prevent child deaths and promote equity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	S260-S261
Journal	Clinical Infectious Diseases
Volume	69
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz542
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

child mortality
disease burden
global health
pathology
surveillance

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10.1093/cid/ciz542

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