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Child Mortality and Injury in Asia: Survey results and evidence

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  • Michael (et al.) Linnan

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Special Series on Child Injury no.3 This paper presents a detailed description of the survey results which were introduced in the Overview Paper. Detailed results are presented first for proportional mortality in children by age group for a population-weighted composite of the surveys, and then for the individual surveys. Following this, detailed results are presented for fatal injury by national or sub-national area, region (urban/rural), and gender for the 0-17 age group. After this the types of fatal injury that occur in the different stages of childhood are presented. The second part of the paper presents both fatal and nonfatal injury by type of injury for the composite of the surveys as well as the individual surveys themselves. The results show that the leading causes of nonfatal injury differ from those of fatal injury, and the greatest burden is caused by the more serious categories of nonfatal injury. Finally, the ratio of the two leading causes of fatal injury in children, drowning and road accidents, are presented for each of the surveys. Drowning is shown to be the leading cause of fatal childhood injury in each survey. The paper concludes with a discussion of the major issues highlighted by the results of the surveys.

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  • Michael (et al.) Linnan, 2007. "Child Mortality and Injury in Asia: Survey results and evidence," Papers inwopa07/44, Innocenti Working Papers, revised 2007.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucf:inwopa:inwopa07/44
    Note: Special Series on Child Injury, issue no.3
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    Keywords

    child health; child mortality; demographic change; developing countries; disabilities; infant mortality; morbidity; right to health and health services; under five mortality rate;
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    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior

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