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. 2021 Mar 17:372:n19.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.n19.

Demographic challenges and opportunities for child health programming in Africa and Asia

Danzhen You  1 , Jan Beise  2 , Sinae Lee  2 , Jennifer Requejo  2 , Kathleen Strong  3
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Demographic challenges and opportunities for child health programming in Africa and Asia

Danzhen You et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Danzhen You and colleagues call for child health programming to take into consideration changing population sizes and dynamics

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no conflict of interests to declare.

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Fig 1
Population by age group in Africa and Asia, 1950-2050
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Fig 2
Number of births and children under age 18, 1950-2050
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Fig 3
Share of births and children under age 18 by continent, 1950-2050
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Fig 4
Total number of births without skilled attendance, additional number of births to be attended to maintain the 2019 coverage, number of births with skilled attendance at 2019 level. Authors’ calculations based on United Nations Population Division and joint Unicef and World Health Organization database on skilled birth attendants, February 2020 (www.data.unicef.org)
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Fig 5
Number of health service providers (doctors, nurses, and midwives) in 2018 (purple bar) and required in 2030 and 2050 when maintaining current density (yellow) and additional number needed for meeting World Health Organization minimum threshold of density (deep pink), Africa. Analysis based on countries with available data for doctors, nurses, and midwives from 2014 or later. Regional aggregates were calculated using weighted averages. The WHO minimum threshold of density is 44.5 skilled health professionals per 10 000 population. Unicef analysis based on WHO Global Health Observatory (https://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.SDG3C?lang=en).
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