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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essor's Article Published on<br />

Lancet<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2010--05—17<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=274203333<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, May 17, 2010: Researchers from <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> and <strong>University</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> Edinburgh published an article titled ―Causes <strong>of</strong> Deaths in Children Younger than<br />

5 Years in China in 2008‖ on the world‘s leading general medical journal Lancet. The<br />

article concluded that preterm birth complications were expected to become the<br />

leading cause <strong>of</strong> child mortality in China, whereas deaths from congenital<br />

abnormalities, accidents, and sudden infant death syndrome were predicted to<br />

continue increasing in importance in the long term.<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>. Guo Yan from Department <strong>of</strong> Health Policy and Management, School <strong>of</strong> <strong>PKU</strong><br />

Public Health has been one <strong>of</strong> the corresponding authors <strong>of</strong> this article. Pr<strong>of</strong>. Guo<br />

received the degree <strong>of</strong> Bachelor <strong>of</strong> Medicine at Beijing Medical <strong>University</strong> in 1982<br />

and then took a master‘s degree at Tulane <strong>University</strong>, USA. Currently, Pr<strong>of</strong>. Guo is<br />

the Vice Dean <strong>of</strong> School <strong>of</strong> Public Health at <strong>PKU</strong>.<br />

China has made substantial progress in reducing the number <strong>of</strong> child deaths over the<br />

past two decades. During 1990–2008, the mortality rates in neonates (

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