Priority setting towards achieving under-five mortality target in Africa in context of sustainable development goals: an ordinary least squares (OLS) analysis

• Main Authors: Michael Acheampong (Author), Chukwudi Ejiofor (Author), Abraham Salinas-Miranda (Author), Bryana Wall (Author), Qiuyan Yu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Africa reduced its under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) by more than 50% during the MDGs era. However, it still has by far the highest average U5MR in the world - 81 deaths compared to a global average of 43 deaths per 1000 births, with eight of the ten countries in the world with the h...