United Arab Emirates

Reduce Child Mortality

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UAE has witnessed growth in the health care sector services. It provides all aspects, stages and specializations of health care all over the country. The MDGs include the following three indicators that demonstrate the progress towards achieving the Goal of reducing child mortality:

a) Under-five mortality rate
b) Infant mortality rate
c) Proportion of one-year-old children immunized against measles.

The goal of reducing child mortality ratio to two thirds of what it was in 1990 presents the government with a challenge; high rates are required from now on if the desired targets are to     be achieved.

Progress towards MDGs

Indicators of children mortality in (1990-2005)

Indicators(*)	1990	2005	Achieved Annually	Targeted Annually	2015*	Challenge
Under-five children mortality rate(per 1000 children)	14.4	9.9	-2.5%	-4.3%	4.8	-7.0%
Infant mortality rate(per 1,000 live births)	11.4	7.7	-2.6%	-4.3%	3.8	-6.8%
Proportion of one-year-oil children immunized against measles	66%	94%	2.4%	1.8%	100%	0.6%

* Reaching very low levels in the child mortality indicators is a theoretical, for there will inevitably be a normal ratio of mortality.