Social determinants of child mortality in Niger: Results from the 2012 National Verbal and Social Autopsy Study

Abstract

Understanding the determinants of preventable deaths of children under the age of five is important for accelerated annual declines – even as countries achieve the UN’s Millennium Development Goals and the target date of 2015 has been reached. While research has documented the extent and nature of the overall rapid decline in child mortality in Niger, there is less clear evidence to provide insight into the contributors to such deaths. This issue is the central focus of this paper.

Keywords

• Niger
• child mortality
• social determinants