Roll Back Malaria Partnership to End Malaria

This report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) focuses on the inequities children in poor communities face daily, and the resulting impact on their health and wellbeing. Children growing up in poverty are nearly twice as likely to die before reaching their fifth birthday than their non-poor counterparts. Many of these deaths, however, are preventable through low-cost, high-impact interventions. Drawing on data from 51 countries, this report provides compelling evidence that investments in children…

This case describes an effort to assess the validity and reliability of immunization records across the Northwest Territories in Canada in 2012. When the Department of Health and Social Services’ (DHSS) Disease Registry Unit was working toward the implementation of a new immunization registry similar to those implemented across the country, it looked at the existing Excel workbook registry system and performed an audit on community health center data to identify potential errors and issues…

This data brief from The Commonwealth Fund outlines information about the maternal mortality ratio in the U.S.—one of the only countries in the world which have reported an increasing maternal mortality ratio since 2000. The brief harnesses the latest data in order to showcase stark disparities in health outcomes. For example, the maternal death ratio for Black women (37.1 per 100,000 pregnancies) is 2.5 times the ratio for white women (14.7) and three times the ratio…