New estimates of global under-5 mortality

摘要

Christopher Murray and colleagues (Sept 22, p 1040) publish the results of an analysis of under-5 mortality data. They note several issues they believe limit the quality and usefulness of evidence on child mortality estimates produced by the Inter-agency Child Mortality Estimation Group (IACMEG), which includes WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the UN Population Division, Harvard University, the US Bureau of the Census, and others