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A hazard logit model analysis of covariates of childhood mortality in Matlab, Bangladesh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Abbas Bhuiya  and
Kim Streatfield
Abbas Bhuiya
Affiliation:
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Kim Streatfield
Affiliation:
Department of Demography, Australian National University, Canberra
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Summary

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.

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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , October 1992 , pp. 447 - 462
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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