TY  - JOUR
T1  - Rethinking hard-to-reach communities in the realm of global pediatrics: The urban poor and community health workers
AU  - Jacobs TA
Y1  - 2010/03/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.294
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 294
EP  - 296
VL  - 164
IS  - 3
N2  - 
Our global pediatric world is changing. While thoughts of global health often invoke images of exotic diseases and hard-to-reach rural clinics, the reality is more nuanced. Progress has been made in mortality in children younger than 5 years—from 19 million annually in the 1960s to less than 9 million currently.1 As in the past, these children more often die of unexotic diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea as well as vaccine-preventable diseases like measles.2 These deaths are increasingly concentrated in fewer countries (eg, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, and Nigeria). Still, challenges remain.

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.294
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2009.294
ER  -