@article{ref1,
title="How many child deaths can we prevent this year?",
journal="Lancet",
year="2003",
author="Jones, G. and Steketee, R. W. and Black, R. E. and Bhutta, Z. A. and Morris, S. S.",
volume="362",
number="9377",
pages="65-71",
abstract="This is the second of five papers in the child survival series. The first focused on continuing high rates of child mortality (over 10 million each year) from preventable causes: diarrhoea, pneumonia, measles, malaria, HIV/AIDS, the underlying cause of undernutrition, and a small group of causes leading to neonatal deaths. We review child survival interventions feasible for delivery at high coverage in low-income. settings, and classify these as level 1 (sufficient evidence of effect), level 2 (limited evidence), or level 3 (inadequate evidence). Our results show that at least one level-1 intervention is available for preventing or treating each main cause of death among children younger than 5 years, apart from birth asphyxia, for which a level-2 intervention is available. There is also limited evidence for several other interventions. However, global coverage for most interventions is below 50%. If level 1 or 2 interventions were universally available, 63% of child deaths could be prevented. These findings show that the interventions needed to achieve the millennium development goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015 are available, but that they are not being delivered to the mothers and children who need them.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0140-6736",
doi="10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13811-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13811-1"
}