Bridging the Under-Five Mortality Gap for Africa in the Era of Sustainable Development Goals: An Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Analysis

• Main Authors: Michael Acheampong (Author), Chukwudi Ejiofor (Author), Abraham Salinas-Miranda (Author), Foday M. Jaward (Author), Michael Eduful (Author), Qiuyan Yu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: While Africa achieved significant progress in reducing under-five mortality rate (U5MR) in the MDGs era, it did not achieve the set target and still has the highest average of 81 deaths per 1000 live births compared to a global average of 43 deaths. The SDG number 3 has set a new target...