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Drop in World Infant Mortality, says WHO report
Infant mortality under five has fallen 30% since 1990, which shows how stronger health systems have performed, a World Health Organisation report has said.
This reduction shows the validity of a better health care, use of mosquito nets to fight malaria, oral rehydration against diarrhoea, more vaccines and clean water and sanitation, a WHO official said quoting the report.
More actions are, however, needed to achieve similar results in other areas, including mother and newborn child health care, WHO Health Statistics and Information Technology Director Ties Boerma said.
The figures are contained in a report titled 'World Health Statistics', the first drafted by WHO on public health-related tasks as part of the UN Millennium Development Goals slated to be achieved by 2015.
--Agencies
Infant mortality under five has fallen 30% since 1990, which shows how stronger health systems have performed, a World Health Organisation report has said.
This reduction shows the validity of a better health care, use of mosquito nets to fight malaria, oral rehydration against diarrhoea, more vaccines and clean water and sanitation, a WHO official said quoting the report.
More actions are, however, needed to achieve similar results in other areas, including mother and newborn child health care, WHO Health Statistics and Information Technology Director Ties Boerma said.
The figures are contained in a report titled 'World Health Statistics', the first drafted by WHO on public health-related tasks as part of the UN Millennium Development Goals slated to be achieved by 2015.
--Agencies