Nature October 18, 2023
Five clinicians describe how their research is contributing to the United Nations goal to boost good health and well-being in children, and the challenges ahead.
One of the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations is to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all people, in part by lowering global maternal mortality and ending preventable deaths of newborn babies and children under five years old. Advances in paediatric care over the past several decades have led to marked declines in child mortality. Between 1990 and 2019, global under-five mortality decreased by 59%1, but millions of children still become sick and die each year, often from preventable and treatable causes (see ‘Meeting the target’). These deaths occur disproportionately in...
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