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February 2005, Vol 95, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 195
© 2005 American Public Health Association

EDITOR'S CHOICE

Reaching the Underserved

César Gomes Victora, MD, PhD, International Associate Editor

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.


Of the several articles on inequalities in health in this issue, I would like to single out 2. The first is by Pavitra Mohan from India, the world’s leader in terms of the absolute number of deaths of children younger than 5 years: 2.4 million in 2000, or about 100 per 1000 births. The second is by Bo Burstrom and colleagues from Sweden, where about 350 children died in 2000, or 4 per 1000. Given this 25-fold difference in mortality rates, are there common lessons to be drawn from these articles?

Mohan shows the extent to which safe water and . . . [Full Text]






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