- Objectives
- Introduction
- How are deaths during childhood counted?
- What is a mortality rate for children?
- What is the under-5 mortality rate?
- How can under-5 deaths be grouped?
- What is an annual mortality rate?
- Should the mortality rates be calculated for a special area?
- Are mortality rates the same for all health districts?
- Do mortality rates remain the same?
- Why is it important to know the infant and under-5 mortality rates?
- What determines the infant and under-5 mortality rates?
- What is the under-5 mortality rate in well resourced countries?
- What is the under-5 mortality rate in under resourced countries?
- What is the under-5 mortality rate in South Africa?
- What is the infant mortality rate in South Africa?
- What do under-5 mortality rates tell us?
- Collecting information on under-5 deaths
- Mortality review
- What is a mortality review?
- What are the aims of the mortality review?
- How should a mortality meeting be managed?
- What information is needed for each child who dies?
- How is the cause of death decided?
- How is the cause of death recorded?
- How should you decide whether the management of a child was correct?
- What is a modifiable factor?
- How can modifiable factors be classified?
- Causes of under 5 deaths
- The analysis of mortality data
- What data are needed to analyse childhood deaths?
- How is the data analysed?
- What results are obtained from the analysis?
- What should be done with the results of the analysis?
- What is a mortality report?
- What ongoing assessments are needed?
- What is the Child Health Care Problem Identification Programme?
- Ways of avoiding the common causes of under 5 deaths
- What steps can be taken to reduce the under-5 mortality rate?
- How can under-5 mortality data be used to improve the quality of care in a health system?
- What should be done to address specific causes of under-5 deaths?
- What should be done once the modifiable factors have been identified within a region?
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