Birth Intervals and Childhood Mortality in Rural Bangladesh

Koenig, Michael A.; Phillips, James F.; Campbell, Oona M. R.; D’Souza, Stan

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“…The relationship between birth intervals and child mortality was studied using longitudinal data from rural Bangladesh [19]. Previous short birth interval had comparatively lower impact on childhood mortality than those reported in earlier studies.…”

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Community effects on public health in India: A hierarchical model

Dwivedi¹,

Begum²,

Dwived³

et al. 2012

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The data on any aspect of public health, including that on infant mortality, has inbuilt hierarchical structure. Using traditional regression approach in data analysis, i.e., ignoring hierarchical structure, either at micro (individual) or at macro (community) level will be avoiding desired assumption related to independence of records. Accordingly, this may result into distortion in the results due to probable underestimation of standard error of the regression coefficients. To be more specific, an irrelevant covariate may emerge as an important covariate leading to inappropriate public health implications. To overcome this problem, the objective of the present work was to deal with multilevel analysis of the data on infant mortality available under second round of National family Health Survey and notify changes in results under traditional regression analysis that ignores hierarchical structure of data. This method provides more accurate results leading to meaningful public health implications. In addition, estimation of variability at different levels and their covariance are also obtained. The results indicate that the community (e.g., state) level characteristics still have major role regarding infant mortality in India. Further, if computational facilities are available, multilevel analysis may be preferred in dealing with data involving hierarchical structure leading to accurate results having meaningful public health implications.

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Community effects on public health in India: A hierarchical model

Dwivedi¹,

Begum²,

Dwived³

et al. 2012

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“…High fertility can affect the prospects of child survival through termination of breast-feeding, sibling competition for limited family resources, and through the negative impact on mother's physical and psychological health. Other contributing factors include the impact of the risk of poor child health that may be attributable to short conception intervals and birth order (Miller et al 1992;Koeing et al 1990). …”

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The demand for children in Arab countries: Evidence from panel and count data models

Al-Qudsi

1998

Journal of Population Economics

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“…About 25% of the under 5 childhood deaths are attributable to ALRI 4 . Community-based trials have documented that this childhood mortality can be reduced by 50% with detection and early treatment of illness with antibiotics and immunization against measles and pertussis as carried according to immunization schedule 5, 6 . Therefore additional interventions to prevent ALRI are needed to complete the case-management approach in developing countries, as purely preventive programs alone, e.g.…”

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Zinc Supplementation Reduces Recurrent Acute Lower Respiratory Infection (ALRI)

Akhtar¹,

Chowdhury

Sultana

2014

J. Armed Forces Med. Coll.

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Introduction: Pneumonia is a frequent and serious human illness. In Bangladesh, Acute Lower Respiratory Infection (ALRI) is a major cause of death among young children. Childhood mortality can be reduced by 50% with detection and early treatment of illness with antibiotics and immunization. Zinc plays an important role in the optimal function of the immune system by reducing the risk, severity and duration of infectious diseases. Zinc supplementation improves health and cell mediated immunity. Objectives: This study is aimed at documenting effect of zinc supplementation in preschool children on reducing ALRI. Methods: This was a double blind random control trial interventional study among180 child, conducted at Comilla CMH, from January 2010 to December 2011. The children aged 6-60 months were selected randomly for comparison of effect of Zinc and Vitamin B-Complex on ALRI. Results: In the study population, male to female ratio was 1.05:1. Baseline average age was 32 months and weight for height was 92% Of NCHS mean. It was found that 89% children completed immunization as per EPI schedule, the rest 11% were partially immunized. Twenty nine percent children had family history of Atopy. This study showed 15 episodes of ALRI in Zinc group in the control B-Complex group (1.09episodes/child/year) during the six months follow-up. There was no association of ALRI with sex. The male female ratio in this respect was 1.07:1. In this study there was statistically significant and clinically important (67%) reduction of episodes of ALRI in oral Zinc supplement group. Conclusion: This finding strongly suggests that oral supplement of Zinc reduces episodes of ALRI in children. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jafmc.v9i1.18736 Journal of Armed Forces Medical College Bangladesh Vol.9(1) 2013: 84-89

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Birth Intervals and Childhood Mortality in Rural Bangladesh

Cited by 104 publications

References 32 publications

Community effects on public health in India: A hierarchical model

Community effects on public health in India: A hierarchical model

The demand for children in Arab countries: Evidence from panel and count data models

Zinc Supplementation Reduces Recurrent Acute Lower Respiratory Infection (ALRI)

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