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© 1987 Oxford University Press

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Infant Mortality and Childhood Nutritional Status Among Afghan Refugees in Pakistan

LESLIE P BOSS, EDWARD W BRINK and TIMOTHY J DONDERO

Centres for Disease Control International Health Program Office

Dr Leslie P Boss, Blair Bldg. 4A01. 9000 Rockville Pike. Bethesda. MD 20892. USA.

In 1984 and again in 1985, systematic surveys were undertaken to evaluate infant mortality and childhood nutritional status among the Afghan refugee population in Pakistan. The entire Afghan refugee population under the administration of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was sampled. Infant mortality rates were estimated to be 156 per 1000 for 1984 and 119 per 1000 for 1985. A decline was also suggested in neonatal mortality rates from 61 per 1000 for 1984 to 46 per 1000 for 1985. For neither infant nor neonatal mortality was the difference statistically significant. Improvements were seen in the percentage of children who died before their fifth birthday (22.5% in 1984 and 18.8% in 1985), in the percentage of children who were malnourished (3.5% in 1984 and 2.3% in 1985), and an increase in the percentage of children above the WHO/NCHS/CDC weight-for-height reference median (26% in 1984 and 35% in 1985). Diarrhoea was the most frequently reported cause of death for both years and was a particularly important cause of death among one-year-old children. In 1985, measles was related to 24% of the deaths and neonatal tetanus to 9% of the deaths, an increase from 8% for measles and 6% for tetanus in 1984.

Received 1 January 1987


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