"Real-Time" Monitoring of Under-Five Mortality: A Vision Tempered by Reality

Jennifer Bryce; RMM Working Group

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001912

"Real-Time" Monitoring of Under-Five Mortality: A Vision Tempered by Reality

PLoS Med. 2016 Jan 25;13(1):e1001912. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001912. eCollection 2016 Jan.

Authors

Jennifer Bryce¹; RMM Working Group

Collaborators

RMM Working Group:
Oumarou Habi, Aklilu Kidanu, Mercy Kanyuka, Hamadoun Sangho, Agbessi Amouzou, Robert Black, Eoghan Brady, Elizabeth Hazel, Olga Joos, Alain Koffi, Andrew Marsh, Melinda Munos, Lois Park, Emily Wilson, Gareth Jones, Kenneth Hill, Larry Moulton, Cesar Victora

Affiliation

¹ Institute for International Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

Abstract

Jennifer Bryce and the RMM Working Group describe the origin and rationale of the Real-Time Monitoring of Under-Five Mortality Collection.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Africa South of the Sahara / epidemiology
Child Mortality / trends*
Child, Preschool
Computer Systems / economics
Computer Systems / trends*
Developing Countries* / economics
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn

Grants and funding

The RMM project was funded by Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (http://www.international.gc.ca/international/index.aspx?lang=eng) through the Real-Time Results Tracking grant (#7056791) under the Catalytic Initiative to Save a Million Lives. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.