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Gareth Jones
Researcher at UNICEF
Publications - 6
Citations - 2997
Gareth Jones is an academic researcher from UNICEF. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Child mortality. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications receiving 2885 citations.
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How many child deaths can we prevent this year
TL;DR: The findings show that the interventions needed to achieve the millennium development goal of reducing child mortality by two-thirds by 2015 are available, but that they are not being delivered to the mothers and children who need them.
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WHO and UNICEF estimates of national infant immunization coverage: methods and processes
Anthony H. Burton,Roeland Monasch,Barbara Lautenbach,Marta Gacic-Dobo,Maryanne Neill,Rouslan I. Karimov,Lara J. Wolfson,Gareth Jones,Maureen Birmingham +8 more
TL;DR: WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund annually review data on immunization coverage to estimate national coverage with routine service delivery of the following vaccines, providing an independent technical assessment of the performance of national immunization systems.
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Levels and trends in under-5 mortality, 1990–2008
TL;DR: The Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) aims to source and share data on child mortality, to improve and harmonise estimation methods across partners, and to produce consistent estimates on the levels and trends in child mortality worldwide.
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Annual mortality rates and excess deaths of children under five in Iraq, 1991-98.
TL;DR: The number of 'excess' under-5 deaths in Iraq between 1991 and 1998 was calculated assuming that, instead of the rates measured by the 1999 survey for this period, either (a) average mortality rates for the period 1986-90 had been maintained, or (b) mortality had continued to decline at the rate observed between 1974 and 1990.
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Child survival in India
TL;DR: The range of child mortality, as well as the proportion of neo-natal deaths, occurring across the states, suggests that at state level 50–70% of deaths can be prevented, and the targets set in the millennium development goals aswell as in the Tenth Five Year plan can be reached.