Shedding light on a million annual deaths in mid-childhood.

The article offers the authors' insight on the article by Shaza Fadel and colleagues on mid-childhood mortality in middle-income countries including India, China, and Brazil. They say that the study reveal that main causes of deaths include communicable or nutritional disease, road traffic injuries and drowning, and non-communicable diseases. They also discuss limitations of the study, the need of multisectoral actions to reduce death rates, and collection of more accurate data on death causes.