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    Equity and child-survival strategies

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    Authors
    Mulholland, E.
    Smith, L.
    Carneiro, H.
    Beck, H.
    Lehmann, Deborah
    Date
    2008
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Mulholland, E and Smith, L and Carneiro, H and Beck, H and Lehmann, Deborah. 2008. Equity and child-survival strategies. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation 86 (5): pp. 399-407.
    Source Title
    Bulletin of the World Health Organisation
    Additional URLs
    http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/5/07-044545/en/index.html
    ISSN
    0042-9686
    Faculty
    Faculty of Health Sciences
    Centre for Developmental Health
    School
    Centre for Developmental Health (Curtin Research Centre)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27551
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    In human rights law, the term 'equity' is used to represent equality with fairness. This is synonymous with the notion of distributive justice, or fair distribution of good things within a society, whether they be material possessions, access to health care, or simply survival. There is nothing that highlights the inequity of our world more starkly than child mortality, and we believe that pneumonia is the cause of childhood death that most strongly reflects this inequity. Between countries the differences in child mortality rates are enormous and well documented. For a child born today, the risk of death in the first 5 years of life in Japan is 6 per 1000, while in Afghanistan, Angola and Sierra Leone the risk is over 40 times as great. This is considering survival only; the chances of a child fulfilling their cognitive and growth potential are similarly inequitable.

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