Children in Punjab fall below international health standards
From the Blog lahoreschoolofeconomics Eight per cent of Pakistani children die before they reach the age of five, giving Pakistan the highest child mortality rate in South Asia. Height and weight for age are also low which further increase the susceptilbility to disease. However, current surveys in Pakistan are lacking information on the leading causes of health status. Collecting more precise evidence on the key determinents of poor health outcomes in Pakistan, particularly those that can be influenced by policy, is of utmost importance for policy makers for informing government action, reveals research by the Lahore School of Economics. In order to address these issues, Lahore School researchers evaluated heights, weights and mortality rates of children in Pakistan and found that factors such as income, educatiopakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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