Tag: World Health Organisation

Decline in Neonatal Deaths

Aug 31, 2011

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mwkruse

in Africa, China, Demography, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, India, Trends: Social

Economist: Good news, sort of The number of deaths among babies is declining THE first 28 days of life are among the most vulnerable in a human’s existence. In 2009 3.3m children died before they were four weeks old, down from 4.6m in 1990, according to a new paper from the World Health Organisation. The…