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  • Title: A hazard logit model analysis of covariates of childhood mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh.
    Author: Bhuiya A, Streatfield K.
    Journal: J Biosoc Sci; 1992 Oct; 24(4):447-62. PubMed ID: 1429773.
    Abstract:
    In a prospective study in Matlab, a rural area in Bangladesh, the relationship between a variety of covariates and childhood mortality was examined. Economic status of household, education of mother, sex of the children, health intervention programmes, age of mother, and live birth order of the children were identified as having a statistically significant impact on child survival when the effect of age was controlled. The effects of sex of the children, health programmes, age of mother, and birth order were found to be dependent on the age of the children, but the effect of mother's education was dependent on sex of the children. Multivariate analysis was conducted in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh, to determine the absolute and relative significance of selected variables in influencing childhood mortality. Variables were grouped under the broad headings of socioeconomic, hygiene-environmental, demographic, and health program factors. Household economic status, mother's education, children's sex, health intervention programs, mother's age, and live birth order of children had statistically significant impacts on child survival when controlling for the effect of age. The sex of children, health programs, mother's age, and birth order were dependent upon the age of the children, while mother's education was dependent upon the sex of children. Having identified certain covariates of childhood mortality, efforts must now be made to identify and change the proximate determinants which negatively affect child survival.
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