Long-Term Reductions in Mortality Among Children Under Age 5 in Rural Haiti: Effects of a Comprehensive Health System in an Impoverished Setting

摘要

Objectives. Evidence regarding the long-term impact of health and other community development programs on under-5 mortality (the risk of death from birth until the fifth birthday) is limited. We compared mortality in a population served by health and other community development programs at the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) with national mortality rates among children younger than 5 years for Haiti between 1958 and 1999.