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Child survival in India.

Gareth Jones1, Werner Schultink, Marzio Babille

  • 1Child Development and Nutrition, United Nations Children's Fund, India Country Office, New Delhi, India.

Indian Journal of Pediatrics
|July 4, 2006
PubMed
Summary

Child mortality in India remains high, with millions of deaths annually. Implementing proven interventions like exclusive breastfeeding and oral rehydration therapy could prevent over 50% of deaths among young children.

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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Pediatrics
  • Global Health

Background:

  • India faces a significant child mortality challenge, with 2.1 million deaths annually among children under five.
  • Despite reductions, the child mortality rate remains high at 87 per 1000 live births.
  • Key causes include diarrhea, pneumonia, neonatal asphyxia, preterm delivery, sepsis, and tetanus, with undernutrition as a major underlying factor.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify high-impact child survival interventions feasible for widespread implementation in India.
  • To calculate the potential reduction in child mortality if these interventions achieve high coverage.

Main Methods:

  • Identification of proven, feasible child survival interventions for India.
  • Modeling the impact of universal coverage of these interventions on child mortality rates.

Main Results:

  • Exclusive breastfeeding, oral rehydration therapy, and adequate complementary feeding are identified as highly effective interventions.
  • Universal application of these interventions could prevent 57% of preschooler mortality.
  • Analysis suggests that 50-70% of child deaths could be preventable at the state level, despite a lack of state-specific cause-of-death data.

Conclusions:

  • Achieving high coverage of key child survival interventions can significantly reduce child mortality in India.
  • The identified interventions offer a viable strategy to meet national and international child mortality reduction targets, including those in the Millennium Development Goals and the Tenth Five Year Plan.

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