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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"child mortality"”.
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Statistical Methods for Human Rights and Child Mortality Estimation
… commonly used in human rights research and child mortality estimation. We first consider two related problems, record linkage and multiple-systems estimation, typically used to estimate the number of civilian casualties in the wake of a conflict when probability surveys are not available, …
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Modelling covariates of infant and child mortality in Malawi
Mortality of children under the age of five has been the main target of public health policies (Gakusi and Garenne 2006). There has been a significant decline in under-five mortality in the twentieth century in almost all countries regardless of initial levels and socio-economic factors, although …
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Infant and child mortality differentials in the southern region of Malawi
… attempted to examine variations in infant and child mortality by demographic and socio-economic variables using unweighted data for the Southern Region only. Children were the unit of analysis and probabilities of dying in infancy or childhood were calculated by the various variables. The …
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Infant and child mortality differentials in the southern region of Malawi
… attempted to examine variations in infant and child mortality by demographic and socio-economic variables using unweighted data for the Southern Region only. Children were the unit of analysis and probabilities of dying in infancy or childhood were calculated by the various variables. The …
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Risk factors associated with high infant and child mortality in Lesotho
… to: 1) identify the risk factors that affect mortality at neonatal, post-neonatal, and child ages, and, specifically, to determine the effect of mother’s HIV status on child mortality; 2) investigate how the risk factors that affect mortality have changed between the two periods, 2000-2004 to …
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Determinants of Levels and Trends in Child Mortality in Rural Northern Malawi
… of Malawi’s extraordinary success in reducing child mortality during the Millennium Development Goal period, the work presented here aimed to develop a detailed epidemiological understanding of local trends in child survival in rural Malawi by identifying the subgroups of children among whom, …
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Public health issues in India and UK: Child Mortality and Survival Expectations
… survival expectations of older populations and mortality amongst children. Chapter 1 examines methodological considerations in eliciting survival probabilities in India and tests their associations with known socioeconomic characteristics. Chapter 2 investigates the effect of a survey induced …
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Estimating the level and trends of child mortality in South Africa, 1996-2006
The lack of reliable data for child mortality estimation since 1998 has meant that child mortality rates for South Africa have not been updated for almost ten years now. It is the overall aim of this research to explore the possibility of determining up-to-date estimates of South Africa's infant …
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Subnational Estimation of Period Child Mortality in a Low and Middle Income Countries Context
Child mortality is an important metric used in quantifying and monitoring the health of a population's children. Moreover, child mortality can be a key indicator of the overall health of a population, and is often used to quantify mortality at other ages. Over the past several decades, there have …
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Birth spacing and child mortality in Mozambique : evidence from two demographic and health surveys
This research examines child mortality risk associated with short preceding birth intervals in Mozambique in quinquennial periods between 1978 to 1998 using data from the 1997 and 2003 DHS. A log rate model for piecewise constant rates is applied. The piecewise hazard function assumes a constant …
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Measuring child mortality in resource limited settings using alternative approaches: South African case study
… are still faced with the challenge of monitoring child mortality. Despite numerous enquiries since 1996 to provide this basic health indicator, South Africa has experienced prolonged periods of uncertainty regarding the level and trend of infant and under-5 mortality. The thesis develops an …
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Do Water Access Inequalities Matter for Child Mortality? A perspective from low-and-middle-income countries
Although the role of water is well known in child health, whether and how the distribution of water access affects child mortality and its economic transmission channels remain unclear. In particular, child mortality caused by diarrhea received insufficient attention, although diarrhea is the …
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Impact of HIV on estimates of child mortality derived using the summary birth history (CEB/CS) Method
… bias in the estimates of infant and under-five mortality derived from the Brass children ever born children surviving (CEB/CS) method as a result of HIV/AIDS. The bias is estimated by comparing the infant and under-five mortality derived from the CEB/CS method with direct estimates from the full …
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The effect of HIV/AIDS on the own child-method of estimating child mortality : Lesotho and Zimbabwe
… impact of the bias due to HIV/AIDS on the own-child method of estimating child mortality, and the contribution of the various components to the overall bias. Indirect estimates of child mortality are calculated by applying the own-child method to the 2009 Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey …
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Spatial analysis of child mortality in South Africa in relation to poverty and inequality : evidences from the 2011 census
Subnational estimates of child mortality are difficult to produce and are rare in Sub- Saharan Africa. It is the overall aim of this research to derive estimates of child mortality rates for the municipalities and provinces of South Africa using the 2011 census data, and to assess the results in …
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The impact of HIV on the summary birth history method of estimating child mortality: a Zimbabwean demographic surveillance case study
… has been an integral part of the measurement of childhood mortality in countries with incomplete and inaccurate vital registration systems. Estimates from this method are biased downwards in the presence of HIV/AIDS on account of the violation of the underlying assumptions of the method, mainly …
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Urbanization and Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Three essays on fertility and child mortality differentials in a rapidly urbanizing context
… to examine whether SSA's long-held urban child survival advantage is diminishing, accounting for differentials in city size and potential bias in survival rates due to migration. I find the overall under-5 survival advantage of urban over rural areas persists but that there is a widening …
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New methods to answer old questions: A study of London infant and child mortality at the turn of the twentieth century
… to understand the inequalities of infant and child mortality in London at the turn of the twentieth century (1895-1911), and to add to the debate on the historical infant mortality decline. Previous studies in this field have been plagued with limitations driven by data availability and …
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Two investigations into the causal link between child mortality and subsequent fertility using DHS data from Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe
… two investigations into the causal link between childhood mortality and fertility using Demographic and Health Survey data from Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, countries which are at different stages of the demographic transition. The first investigation assesses the effect of the …
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Infant and child mortality in South Africa in the context of a high HIV prevalence : an investigation into changing mortality patterns at a fine age resolution
… of how the epidemic is affecting infants and children in the population and to what extent interventions are affecting mortality. However, establishing accurate estimates of infant and child mortality levels is very difficult in South Africa because the data available is nearly a decade out of …
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