ReviewInquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing
Infant & Child Mortality in Pakistan and its Determinants: A Review.
Review in Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Article
- Outcomes of pregnancy and HIV status of infants born to women with HIV in Larkana, Pakistan: a ten-year retrospective study (2011-2021).BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Geographic inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding among infants under six months across 18 African countries.International breastfeeding journal · 2025Article
- Prevalence and risk factors of stillbirths among pregnant women from twelve high-volume birthing facilities of Karachi, Pakistan: a longitudinal cohort study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Burden of congenital anomalies in Faisalabad, Pakistan: Consanguinity, ethnic disparities and public health implications.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2025Article
- Perceptions of consent for a paediatric telehealth trial during emergency transport in Pakistan.Archives of disease in childhood · 2025Article
- Cultural, socioeconomic, and demographic factors contributing to child mortality: evidence from Sierra Leone demographic and health survey 2019.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Infant mortality in Brazil from 2000 to 2020: a study of spatial and trend analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Socioeconomic Disparities in Accessing Early Newborn Care in Pakistan: Secondary Data Analysis of Nationally Representative Sample.Turkish archives of pediatrics · 2025Article
- Contraception Chronicles: The Gamified Approach to Postgraduate Education in Family Medicine.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2025Article
- Associations among parental mental health, lifestyle factors and infant mortality in rural and urban mothers.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Association between antenatal care visits and under-five mortality: An Analysis of the Pakistan demographic and health surveys.PloS one · 2025Article
- Association between adolescent pregnancy and infant mortality: a population-based study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Article
- Article
- Infant and child mortality in Afghanistan: A scoping review.Health science reports · 2024Article
- Article
- Predictors of voluntary uptake of modern contraceptive methods in rural Sindh, Pakistan.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
10 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Over the years, several developing countries have been suffering from high infant and child mortality rates, however, according to the recent statistics, Pakistan falls high on the list. Our narrative review of copious research on this topic highlights that several factors, such as complications associated with premature births, high prevalence of birth defects, lack of vaccination, unsafe deliveries, poor breastfeeding practices, complications during delivery, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), poor socioeconomic conditions, and a struggling healthcare system, have influenced these rates. Bearing in mind the urgency of addressing the increased infant and child mortality rate in Pakistan, multiple steps must be taken in order to prevent unnecessary deaths. An effective initiative could be spreading awareness and education among women, as a lack of education among women has been indirectly linked to increased child mortality in Pakistan across many researches conducted on the issue. Furthermore, the government should invest in healthcare by hiring more physicians and providing better supplies and improving infrastructure, especially in underdeveloped areas, to decrease child mortality due to lack of clean water and poor hygiene. Lastly, telemedicine should be made common in order to provide easy access to women who cannot visit the hospital.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.