联合国儿童基金会选择5岁以下儿童死亡率作为衡量一个国家儿童状况的重要指标.为此,对甘肃省1990～1996年5岁以下儿童死亡状况进行分析,从而为“九十年代我国儿童生存、保护和发展主要目标”的实现提供对策.1 材料与方法死因资料为全省20个疾病监测点1990～1996年的死亡医学证明书.人口资料为监测点同期活产婴儿数.死因资料按“国际疾病分类ICD—9”编码,微机录入、统计汇兑.5岁以下儿童死亡率为每千名活产婴儿 UNICEF chose the under-five mortality rate as an important indicator to measure the status of children in a country, so as to analyze the death of children under age 5 from 1990 to 1996 in Gansu Province, Protection and development of the main objectives of the “measures to provide countermeasures.1 Materials and Methods The cause of death data for the province’s 20 disease monitoring points 1990 ~ 1996 death certificate.Patient data for the monitoring point of the same period of live births.Accidence of death by” International Classification of Diseases ICD-9 "coding, PC entry, statistical exchange. The death rate for children under 5 years of age is one thousand live births