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      Estimates of world-wide distribution of child deaths from acute respiratory infections.

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          Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are among the leading causes of childhood mortality. Estimates of the number of children worldwide who die from ARI are needed in setting priorities for health care. To establish a relation between deaths due to ARI and all-cause deaths in children under 5 years we show that the proportion of deaths directly attributable to ARI declines from 23% to 18% and then 15% (95% confidence limits range from +/- 2% to +/- 3%) as under-5 mortality declines from 50 to 20 and then to 10/1000 per year. Much of the variability in estimates of ARI in children is shown to be inherent in the use of verbal autopsies. This analysis suggests that throughout the world 1.9 million (95% CI 1.6-2.2 million) children died from ARI in 2000, 70% of them in Africa and southeast Asia.

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          Journal
          Lancet Infect Dis
          The Lancet. Infectious diseases
          Elsevier BV
          1473-3099
          1473-3099
          Jan 2002
          : 2
          : 1
          Affiliations
          [1 ] World Health Organization, 20 Avenue Appia, Geneva 27, CH 1211, Switzerland. williamsbg@who.int
          Article
          S1473-3099(01)00170-0
          10.1016/s1473-3099(01)00170-0
          11892493
          b9a437d3-468e-4547-a949-d39c53ddbd80
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