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15 Childhood mortality

Objectives

When you have completed this unit you should be able to:

  • Calculate the under-5 mortality rate.
  • Understand the importance of knowing local mortality rates.
  • Manage a mortality meeting.
  • List common causes of under-5 mortality.
  • Identify important modifiable factors.
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15-1 How are deaths during childhood counted?
15-2 What is a mortality rate for children?
15-3 What is the under-5 mortality rate?
15-4 How can under-5 deaths be grouped?
15-5 What is an annual mortality rate?
15-6 Should the mortality rates be calculated for a special area?
15-7 Are mortality rates the same for all health districts?
15-8 Do mortality rates remain the same?
15-9 Why is it important to know the infant and under-5 mortality rates?
15-10 What determines the infant and under-5 mortality rates?
15-11 What is the under-5 mortality rate in well resourced countries?
15-12 What is the under-5 mortality rate in under resourced countries?
15-13 What is the under-5 mortality rate in South Africa?
15-14 What is the infant mortality rate in South Africa?
15-15 What do under-5 mortality rates tell us?
15-16 Should childhood deaths be notified?
15-17 How should the causes of childhood deaths be accurately identified?
15-18 Why is it important to know the common causes of under-5 deaths?
15-19 What is a mortality review?
15-20 What are the aims of the mortality review?
15-21 How should a mortality meeting be managed?
15-22 What information is needed for each child who dies?
15-23 How is the cause of death decided?
15-24 How is the cause of death recorded?
15-25 How should you decide whether the management of a child was correct?
15-26 What is a modifiable factor?
15-27 How can modifiable factors be classified?
15-28 What are the common causes of under-5 deaths in South African hospitals?
15-29 How will the AIDS epidemic affect the common causes of death?
15-30 Why is it important to determine the HIV status of each child that dies?
15-31 How important is malnutrition as a cause of death?
15-32 What data are needed to analyse childhood deaths?
15-33 How is the data analysed?
15-34 What results are obtained from the analysis?
15-35 What should be done with the results of the analysis?
15-36 What is a mortality report?
15-37 What ongoing assessments are needed?
15-38 What is the Child Health Care Problem Identification Programme?
15-39 What steps can be taken to reduce the under-5 mortality rate?
15-40 How can under-5 mortality data be used to improve the quality of care in a health system?
15-41 What should be done to address specific causes of under-5 deaths?
15-42 What should be done once the modifiable factors have been identified within a region?
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