CHILD MORTALITY BY COUNTRY.

Wednesday, 1st of August 2012

For data from your country, go to http://cherg.org/main.html and type the name of your country in the search box.

Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group

The overall goal of CHERG is to develop and deploy new and improved evidence on the causes and determinants of maternal, neonatal and child morbidity and mortality, on intervention coverage, and on the effectiveness of interventions to inform and influence global priorities and programs.

The main purposes of the CHERG are

advise WHO and other international organizations on the most appropriate methods and assumptions for their global, regional and country level child health epidemiological estimates;
advise researchers and public health officials on the different issues involved in the estimation of cause-specific morbidity and mortality; and
publish papers, reports and reviews on child health epidemiology, especially on the distribution of causes of death.

Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group

The main purposes of the CHERG are

· advise WHO and other international organizations on the most appropriate methods and assumptions for their global, regional and country level child health epidemiological estimates;

· advise researchers and public health officials on the different issues involved in the estimation of cause-specific morbidity and mortality; and

· publish papers, reports and reviews on child health epidemiology, especially on the distribution of causes of death.