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C.h. Coelho

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The overlapping burden of the three leading causes of disability and death in sub-Saharan African children

2022

Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s). Despite substantial declines since 2000, lower respiratory infections (LRIs), diarrhoeal diseases, and malaria remain among the leading causes of nonfatal and fatal disease burden for children under 5 years of age (under 5), primarily in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The spatial burden of each of these diseases has been estimated subnationally across SSA, yet no prior analyses have examined the pattern of their combined burden. Here we synthesise subnational estimates of the burden of LRIs, diarrhoea, and malaria in children under-5 from 2000 to 2017 for 43 sub-Saharan countries. Some units faced a relatively equal burden from each of the three diseas…

MultidisciplinarySettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale e Applicata3122 CancersmalariaGeneral Physics and AstronomyCOVID-19General Chemistry3126 Surgery anesthesiology intensive care radiologyinfectious diseasesSub-Saharian AfricaGeneral Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular BiologySettore MED/01 - Statistica MedicaChildren mortality; Sub-Saharian AfricaepidemiologyChildren mortalitybiogeographyNature Communications
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