Does India need national child mortality surveillance project to reduce child mortality? An opportunity from National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP)

In 2015, India had 20 percent share of global under-five deaths (1.2 million), highest number of deaths in the world. In the era of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), to accomplish goal 3, target 3.2 to reduce child mortality to 25 per 1,000 live births, India needs to accelerate to achieve the sam...

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Main Author: P Brahmapurkar Kishor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Community and Family Medicine
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Online Access:http://www.ijcfm.org/article.asp?issn=2395-2113;year=2017;volume=3;issue=1;spage=8;epage=10;aulast=Kishor;type=0