What Has Driven the Decline of Infant Mortality in Kenya?

What Has Driven the Decline of Infant Mortality in Kenya?

Substantial declines in infant and under-5 mortality have taken place in recent years in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Kenya's infant mortality rate has fallen by 7.6 percent per year, the fastest rate of decline among the 20 countries in the region for which recent Demographic and Hea...

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Main Authors: Demombynes, Gabriel, Trommlerová, Sofia Karina
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
aged
aging
anemia
prenatal care
prenatal clinics
antimalarial drugs
Back Malaria
child deaths
child health
Child Mortality
child survival
clinics
Cost Effectiveness
decision making
declines in mortality
diarrhea
Disease
drug treatment
drugs
educated mothers
health facilities
HIV/AIDS
hygiene
immunization
infant health
Infant Mortality
infection rate
iron supplements
labor markets
living standards
low birth weight
malaria
Maternal and Child Health
measles
medical facilities
Millennium Development Goal
Neonatal mortality
nutrition
Parasitology
pit latrines
polio
postneonatal mortality
pregnancy
safe water
sanitation
tetanus
Tropical Medicine
Tuberculosis
urban areas
vaccination campaign
vector control
World Health Organization
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6580

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