A Successful Failure: Missing the MDG4 Target for Under-Five Mortality in South Africa.

Byass P.; Kabudula CW.; Mee P.; Ngobeni S.; Silaule B.; Gómez-Olivé FX.; Collinson MA.; Tugendhaft A.; Wagner RG.; Twine R.; Hofman K.; Tollman SM.; Kahn K.

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A Successful Failure: Missing the MDG4 Target for Under-Five Mortality in South Africa.

Byass P., Kabudula CW., Mee P., Ngobeni S., Silaule B., Gómez-Olivé FX., Collinson MA., Tugendhaft A., Wagner RG., Twine R., Hofman K., Tollman SM., Kahn K.

Reflecting on under-five mortality, Peter Byass and colleagues consider how some countries may fail to meet millennium development goal targets despite making considerable advances.

Original publication

DOI

10.1371/journal.pmed.1001926

Type

Journal

PLoS medicine

Publication Date

12/2015

Volume

Addresses

MRC-Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Keywords

Humans, Child Mortality, Infant Mortality, Child, Preschool, Infant, Infant, Newborn, South Africa