Annual rates of decline in child, maternal, HIV, and tuberculosis mortality across 109 countries of low and middle income from 1990 to 2013: an assessment of the feasibility of post-2015 goals

• Main Authors: Dr. Stéphane Verguet, PhD (Author), Prof. Ole Frithjof Norheim, PhD (Author), Zachary D Olson, MA (Author), Gavin Yamey, MD (Author), Prof. Dean T Jamison, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Measuring a country's health performance has focused mostly on estimating levels of mortality. An alternative is to measure rates of decline in mortality, which are more sensitive to changes in health policy than are mortality levels. Historical rates of decline in mortality can als...