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

Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Points• Millennium Development Goal (MDG) "success" is based on relatively arbitrary targets, yet countries are coming under close scrutiny as the 2015 deadline approaches and the world's focus moves on to new Sustainable Development Goals.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001926
Authors: Peter Byass, Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula, Paul Mee, Sizzy Ngobeni, Bernard Silaule, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Mark A. Collinson, Aviva Tugendhaft, Ryan G. Wagner, Rhian Twine, Karen Hofman, Stephen M. Tollman, Kathleen Kahn
Institutions: University of the Witwatersrand, Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System, Umeå University, Indepth Network, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Public Health
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $6,460
Funders: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Wellcome Trust, European Commission, South African Medical Research Council, National Institutes of Health, Medical Research Council, National Institute on Aging
Awards: Strengthening and stabilising a demographic and health surveillance in Agincourt: foundation for a health and population research programme in South Africa's rural northeast, G1112674395, Partnership for Social Science AIDS Research in South African's Era of ART Rollou, Improving Popoulation Health Through Research Exchanges, Health, population and social transitions in rural Southern Africa: Elucidating pathways and testing interventions., G3604940422, G4570411886, Investigating and responding to health, population and social transitions in rural Southern Africa., G775404406, G8186070293, G8276714428, G8343613923
OpenAlex ID: W2202028244
FWCI: 1.511
Cites: 19
Cited by: 9
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