Earlier this year, one of us took part in a policy dialogue about child health in Bangladesh. On being presented with evidence of increasing mortality among children younger than 5 years in parts of Bangladesh, a senior government official rightly enquired whether or not disaggregated (regional) cause of death data had been collected that could help explain this deviation from the national trend and guide responses. Sadly, our answer was “no”. That is exactly the kind of data gap that the work by the Million Death Study Collaborators¹ published in The Lancet was designed to address.

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儿童死亡率：印度和世界面临的挑战

今年早些时候，我们中的一个人参加了有关孟加拉国儿童健康的政策对话。在得到孟加拉国部分地区5岁以下儿童死亡率增加的证据后，一位高级政府官员正确地询问是否收集了分类（区域）的死亡原因数据，可以帮助解释这种偏离国家趋势的情况，以及指导回应。可悲的是，我们的回答是“不”。这正是《柳叶刀》杂志上发表的“百万死亡研究合作伙伴¹ ”旨在解决的数据鸿沟。