Medicine & Health

Child Mortality Estimation Methods

Published June 8, 2016 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

Millennium Development Goal 4 calls for a reduction of two-thirds in the under-5 mortality rate between 1990 and 2015. Reliable estimates of child mortality are critical to the monitoring of progress toward this important goal. The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) annually reports on country, regional and global trends in child mortality. In this collection of research articles and reviews the independent Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the UN IGME introduces the group's methodological innovations in estimating child mortality.The Collection is produced with support from UNICEF and the TAG of the UN IGME. The most recent estimates can be found on the Child Mortality Estimation website.

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Speaking of Medicine No More Guesstimation: How to Reliably Estimate Trends in Child Mortality – Speaking of Medicine
August 28, 2012 Cecy Marden

Reviews

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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001298

PLOS Medicine Child Mortality Estimation: Methods Used to Adjust for Bias due to AIDS in Estimating Trends in Under-Five Mortality
August 28, 2012 Neff Walker, Kenneth Hill, Fengmin Zhao
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001303

PLOS Medicine Child Mortality Estimation: Accelerated Progress in Reducing Global Child Mortality, 1990–2010
August 28, 2012 Kenneth Hill, Danzhen You, Mie Inoue, Mikkel Oestergaard

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10.1371/journal.pone.0101112

PLOS ONE Child Mortality Estimation 2013: An Overview of Updates in Estimation Methods by the United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
July 11, 2014 Leontine Alkema, Jin Rou New, Jon Pedersen, Danzhen You
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001288

PLOS Medicine Child Mortality Estimation: A Comparison of UN IGME and IHME Estimates of Levels and Trends in Under-Five Mortality Rates and Deaths
August 28, 2012 Leontine Alkema, Danzhen You
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001287

PLOS Medicine Child Mortality Estimation: Estimating Sex Differences in Childhood Mortality since the 1970s
August 28, 2012 Cheryl Sawyer
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001299

PLOS Medicine Child Mortality Estimation: A Global Overview of Infant and Child Mortality Age Patterns in Light of New Empirical Data
August 28, 2012 Michel Guillot, Patrick Gerland, François Pelletier, Ameed Saabneh
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001296

PLOS Medicine Child Mortality Estimation: Consistency of Under-Five Mortality Rate Estimates Using Full Birth Histories and Summary Birth Histories
August 28, 2012 Romesh Silva
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10.1371/journal.pmed.1001289

PLOS Medicine Child Mortality Estimation: Appropriate Time Periods for Child Mortality Estimates from Full Birth Histories
August 28, 2012 Jon Pedersen, Jing Liu

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The views expressed in this collection are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations, UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank. Its contents have not been formally edited and cleared by the United Nations, UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank.