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Towards Millennium Development Goal Four

¹ Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, Hampton House, Bristol, UK
² The School of Medicine, Singleton Park, Swansea University, Swansea, UK

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Dr M Ellis
Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, Hampton House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JS, UK; m.ellis@bristol.ac.uk

Keywords: integrated management of childhood illness; developing countries; mortality; public health

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The first child survival revolution led by UNICEF saw a fall in global under five child mortality (U5MR) from 121 in 1980 to 88 in 1986.¹ It brought together the big players in international health and built momentum through a strategy of social mobilisation. This focused on four low cost primary care interventions (growth monitoring, oral rehydration, breast feeding, and immunisation). The second child survival revolution is now gathering pace and paediatricians are being called on to play our part.

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The Child Survival Countdown to 2015 Conference held in London in December 2005 provided the first of what are planned to be biennial opportunities to review progress. In his commentary on the meeting, the editor of The Lancet calls for a strengthening of the science base of child health and specifically charges paediatric organisations from high income countries to do more to build collaborations with colleagues in . . . [Full text of this article]

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