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Descriptor English: Child Mortality
Descriptor Spanish: Mortalidad del Niño
Descriptor mortalidad del niño
Entry term(s) mortalidad de niños
mortalidad en la infancia
Scope note: Número de fallecimientos de niños con edades comprendidas entre 1 y 12 años que se producen en una determinada población.
Descriptor Portuguese: Mortalidade da Criança
Descriptor French: Mortalité de l'enfant
Entry term(s): Child Mortalities
Mortalities, Child
Mortality, Child
Tree number(s): E05.318.308.985.550.287
N01.224.935.698.150
N06.850.505.400.975.550.287
N06.850.520.308.985.550.287
SP3.311.300.392.432.600
SP5.467.413.330.903.233
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D046688
Scope note: Number of deaths of children between one year of age to 12 years of age in a given population.
Annotation: a statistical concept; check the tag CHILD, PRESCHOOL or CHILD
Allowable Qualifiers: EH ethnology
HI history
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Infant Mortality (1980-2004)
Mortality (1966-2004)
Public MeSH Note: 2005; see INFANT MORTALITY 1980-2004
History Note: 2005; use INFANT MORTALITY 1980-2004
Entry Version: CHILD MORTAL
DeCS ID: 38823
Unique ID: D046688
NLM Classification: WA 900
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2005/01/01
Date of Entry: 2004/07/07
Revision Date: 2017/06/30
Child Mortality - Preferred
Concept UI M0011271
Scope note Number of deaths of children between one year of age to 12 years of age in a given population.
Preferred term Child Mortality
Entry term(s) Child Mortalities
Mortalities, Child
Mortality, Child



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