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GPH 89: Child Health · Clinical Deep Dives

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  SPEAKER_00: this is the brief on global child health today we're summarizing
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  SPEAKER_00: a massive oxford textbook chapter on under five mortality so definitely check out
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  SPEAKER_00: the full episode later where you'll conceptually grasp the true scale of this crisis
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  SPEAKER_00: and the exact tools needed to solve it
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  SPEAKER_00: first despite some amazing global progress 6.6 million kids
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  SPEAKER_00: under five still die every single year over 80 percent
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  SPEAKER_00: of these deaths hit just sub-saharan africa and south asia with
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  SPEAKER_00: the absolute highest risk right in
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  SPEAKER_00: the neonatal period those critical first 28 days this window is
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  SPEAKER_00: the ultimate bottleneck for human survival i mean why should
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  SPEAKER_00: a baby's birth slip code still completely dictate their odds of surviving month one
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  SPEAKER_00: second let's look at the actual killers newborns mostly succumb
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  SPEAKER_00: to preterm birth complications but older kids aren't dying from rare
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  SPEAKER_00: and curable conditions they're primarily dying from pneumonia diarrhea
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  SPEAKER_00: and malaria seriously how is it possible we're still losing kids to diarrhea in
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  SPEAKER_00: the 21st century when the cure is basically just clean water sugar
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  SPEAKER_00: and salt finally we hit the delivery gap
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  SPEAKER_00: we actually have highly effective incredibly cheap interventions ready
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  SPEAKER_00: to go like oral rehydration salts zinc exclusive breastfeeding and basic vaccines
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  SPEAKER_00: but underlying determinants like extreme poverty and a lack
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  SPEAKER_00: of skilled community health workers completely block access it's kind of like having
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  SPEAKER_00: a massive warehouse