CHILD HEALTH STATUS IN PAKISTAN

Maryum Shoukat, Manpreet Singh Khurmi, Muhammad Umer Faheem

Abstract


Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. Child health status is very poor and mortality rates for children at all ages are very high. Pakistan is making very slow progress towards better health of child and mother. Among the Asian countries, Pakistan has the slowest rate of child mortality reduction. Major factors which are playing role in death of children should be improved like education of mother, gender inequality and proper secondary as well as tertiary care. Since neonatal mortality rate (NMR) constitutes about half of under five deaths in the country, any initiative to reduce NMR would in turn help in decreasing under five mortality rate and improve child health status. We here present a brief review of child health status in Pakistan in comparison to world and discuss main interventions which need to be done to help Pakistan progress.
Keywords: Child health status, Child mortality rates, Pakistan
Stud J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad 2015;1(1):21-3


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