A Successful Failure: Missing the MDG4 Target for Under-Five Mortality in South Africa

Peter Byass; Chodziwadziwa W Kabudula; Paul Mee; Sizzy Ngobeni; Bernard Silaule; F Xavier Gómez-Olivé; Mark A Collinson; Aviva Tugendhaft; Ryan G Wagner; Rhian Twine; Karen Hofman; Stephen M Tollman; Kathleen Kahn

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001926

A Successful Failure: Missing the MDG4 Target for Under-Five Mortality in South Africa

PLoS Med. 2015 Dec 22;12(12):e1001926. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001926. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Authors

Peter Byass^{1

2}, Chodziwadziwa W Kabudula^{1

3}, Paul Mee^{1

2

4}, Sizzy Ngobeni¹, Bernard Silaule¹, F Xavier Gómez-Olivé^{1

3}, Mark A Collinson^{1

2

3}, Aviva Tugendhaft^{1

5}, Ryan G Wagner¹, Rhian Twine¹, Karen Hofman^{1

5}, Stephen M Tollman^{1

2

3}, Kathleen Kahn^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ MRC-Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
² Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
³ INDEPTH Network, Accra, Ghana.
⁴ Department of Global Health and Development, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
⁵ PRICELESS/PEECHi, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Abstract

Reflecting on under-five mortality, Peter Byass and colleagues consider how some countries may fail to meet millennium development goal targets despite making considerable advances.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Child Mortality / trends*
Child, Preschool
Humans
Infant
Infant Mortality / trends*
Infant, Newborn
South Africa / epidemiology

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding