Comparing progress toward the millennium development goal for under-five mortality in Leon and Cuatro Santos, Nicaragua, 1990-2008.

CONCLUSIONS: All rural and urban areas in Nicaragua included in this study were on track to reach MDG4, but social stratification in child survival showed different patterns; unfavorable patterns with increasing inequity in the peri-urban rural zone and a more equitable development in the urban as well as the poor and remote rural area. An equitable progress in child survival may also be accelerated in very poor settings. PMID: 24428933 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24428933?dopt=Abstract

Source: Rural Remote Health - January 15, 2014 Category: Rural Health Authors: Pérez W, Eriksson L, Blandón EZ, Persson LA, Källestål C, Peña R Tags: BMC Pediatr Source Type: research