In addition, children from poor households, who are more likely to be exposed to such diseases as pneumonia and malaria, are less likely to receive proper medical attention than children from better-off households (Victoria and others, 2003). At the global level, the net relative mortality risk of a child from the richest quin-tileis 81 per cent that for a child from the poorest quintile (figure 7). As observed before for the whole age range of 0-4 years (0-59 months), the net relative risk of infant mortality diminishes steadily with the level of household wealth. The relative mortality risks are 96 per cent for infants from the middle quintile and 94 per cent for infants from the rich quintile, compared to children from the poorest quintile.