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Child Mortality

Child mortality is the death of children before a specified age, most commonly measured as the under-five mortality rate, and it serves as a sensitive indicator of population health, development and the effectiveness of health systems. It reflects the combined influence of nutrition, infectious disease, maternal hea…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 125× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2693-1176 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Child mortality is the death of children before a specified age, most commonly measured as the under-five mortality rate, and it serves as a sensitive indicator of population health, development and the effectiveness of health systems. It reflects the combined influence of nutrition, infectious disease, maternal health, access to care and broader socioeconomic conditions. Research relevant to this topic includes multilevel modeling of the determinants of child mortality, analyses of how health-system strength in underdeveloped and developing settings affects child survival, and studies of preventable conditions such as diarrheal disease and acute malnutrition among children under five. Allied work addresses maternal and child health-care delivery by community health workers, infant feeding practices, recovery from moderate acute malnutrition, stunting and its risk factors, and the influence of public financing and governance on immunization performance. Nutritional deficiencies and access to preventive interventions feature prominently as modifiable contributors. By quantifying how many children die and why, child-mortality research identifies priorities for intervention and monitors progress toward improved survival. It integrates epidemiology, nutrition, maternal and child health and health-systems analysis to inform policies and programs aimed at reducing preventable deaths and improving the health and development of children, particularly in low- and middle-income settings where the burden is greatest.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Health Systems of Underdeveloped and Developing Countries

Mango LucioCorresponding author
Head for Higher Education in Healthcare, University of International Studies (UNINT) – Rome, Italy
Exact topic International Journal of Global Health Cited by 3 doi:10.14302/issn.2693-1176.ijgh-20-3489

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 125 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Child Mortality, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Global Health (ISSN 2693-1176).

Journal editorial board
Andrew Hall · United Kingdom Richard Bright · Australia Zhiqiang Feng · United Kingdom

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