Child mortality rates dropping, study finds, but U.S. lags

Sunday, May 23, 2010 - 20:20 in Health & Medicine

Childhood deaths are down 42% in the U.S., but nations such as Serbia and Malaysia, which were ranked behind the U.S. in 1990, cut their rates by nearly 70%. Underscoring historic recent gains in global health, the number of children younger than 5 who die this year will fall to 7.7 million, down from 11.9 million two decades ago, according to new estimates...

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