Childhood Mortality: Let Say Happy 5th Birthday

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Although childhood mortality rates have improved in recent years there is still much to be done to improve the health of children throughout the world. In 2012 6.6 million children died before the age of five. By analyzing causes of childhood mortality rates solutions can be sought to further improve the quality of life for children under five worldwide.
Since 1960 child mortality rates have dropped substantially. In 1960 the worldwide child mortality rate for children under 5 years old was 1 billion compared to 6.6 million in 2012, *Citation. Sadly in 2012 nearly 1800 children died worldwide every day before reaching their 5th birthday*citation. In more recent years it was found that the rate has been cut in half since the 1990’s. Evidence and trends suggests that poorer, undeveloped countries such as; China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan. The countries of India and Nigeria making up at least 1/3 of the childhood mortality rate in the world today. While it’s evident that these third world countries have some of the highest rates for child mortality and for obvious reasons, a look at the causes behind childhood mortality provide useful information for the improvement and prevention of childhood mortality rates in all countries. A variety of causes contribute to the reasons of child fatality. Anywhere from high population rate and low economic stability; to get to the bottom of this worldwide epidemic I feel it necessary to explore these reasons
The reasons seem almost clear why developed countries such as America don’t have as astonishing statistics. In fact the only thing astonishing about their statistics is that there so small in comparison. In America the rate of children who die before five i...

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...ing the birth control for both men and women and education centers to teach safe and protected sex. So I want to make sure that there are proper barriers so that the population can decrease in becoming over populated. Next I want to make sure that there are centers so that mothers can properly care for their young children. So bring in those centers as well. I hope with the information provided and the strategic plan to fix it will hopefully bring awareness to this astonishing problem.
Like I previously; by analyzing causes of childhood mortality rates solutions can be sought to further improve the quality of life for children under five worldwide. I researched the main causes to this devastating problem and further sought out solutions. There is hope yet. No mother should have the heart wrenching feeling of losing the child they brought into this world, no brother

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