Unexpected decline in newborn mortality drives child deaths below 8 million
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Worldwide mortality in children younger than 5 years has dropped from 11.9 million deaths in 1990 to 7.7 million deaths in 2010, a rate of decline that is faster than expected, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
