Back to browse results| |Injuries number three killer of
children under 5 years: Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) from
Pakistan| ||U R Khan, N Zia, J A Razzak ||Injury Prevention ,
2010;16:A227 doi:10.1136/ip.2010.029215.807 Children under five
Background Globally, around 950 000 children under age of 18
years die due to injury and violence each year. The rate of
child injury death is 3.4 times higher in low- and middle-income
countries than in high-income countries. Objectives To study
injury mortality patterns among children under 5 years of age in
Pakistan. Methods DHS in Pakistan was conducted from September
2006 till February 2007. It included 95 000 households. Child
Verbal Autopsy Questionnaires (CVAQs) was administered to
households which had death of a child under age 5 from January
2005 onwards. A total of 3232 CVAQs were administered, of which
3101 were completed. Results The main causes of child deaths
(the probability of dying between the first and fifth birthday)
were diarrhoea (17.7%), pneum