Cost-effective measures could stop child pneumonia deaths
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 01:56
in Health & Medicine
Implementing measures to improve nutrition, indoor air pollution, immunisation coverage and the management of pneumonia cases could be cost-effective and significantly reduce child mortality from pneumonia, according to a study led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers found that these strategies combined could reduce total child mortality by 17 percent and could reduce pneumonia deaths by more than 90 percent. Pneumonia is a leading cause of death of infants in many developing countries, resulting in 2.2 million deaths each year. The study is published in the June 2009 issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation...
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