Kenya: What Mapping Child Deaths for 50 Years Revealed - and Why It Matters

[The Conversation Africa] The number of children who die before reaching their fifth birthday is closely monitored as a marker of social well-being and national development. It best summarises the social, economic, environmental and health care systems that children are born into and thus used as the basis of planning health strategies, programmes and interventions. It's also an important tool for evaluating the success of a country's child health policies.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news