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NewsCash payments draw mothers to hospitals and reduce newborn deaths
June 4, 2010–An innovative program in India that pays women to give birth in a health facility appears to be saving newborns’ lives and lowering the number of stillbirths, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI). Read the News Release Injuries threaten survival of Iranian children
May 28, 2010–More than 44,000 Iranian children under the age of 15 died due to injuries between 2001 and 2006, making injuries the leading cause of death among children in Iran, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. With child injury recognized as a global health problem, researchers sought to estimate the impact of injuries on children in Iran. Their research found that road transport injuries were responsible for the highest death rate among all child injuries. Read the Research Highlights Unexpected decline in newborn mortality drives child deaths below 8 million
May 24, 2010–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. The total number of deaths consists of 3.1 million neonatal deaths, 2.3 million postneonatal deaths, and 2.3 million deaths of children aged 1 year to 4 years. Read the News Release
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