scholarly journals The burden of anthropometric failure and child mortality in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Junaid Khan ◽  
Sumit Kumar Das
Keyword(s):  
Child Mortality ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Severe Form ◽  
District Level ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
Wealth Status ◽  
Indian Children ◽  
Public Health Burden ◽  
Infant And Child Mortality

AbstractThe public health burden of nutritional deficiency and child mortality is the major challenge India is facing upfront. In this context, using National Family Health Survey, 2015–16 data, this study estimated rate of composite index of anthropometric failure (CIAF) among Indian children by their population characteristics, across states and examined the multilevel contextual determinants. We further investigated district level burden of infant and child mortality in terms of multiple anthropometric failure prevalence across India. The multilevel analysis confirms a significant state, district and PSU level variation in the prevalence of anthropometric failures. Factors like- place of residence, household’s economic wellbeing, mother’s educational attainment, age, immunization status and drinking water significantly determine the different forms of multiple anthropometric failures. Wealth status of the household and mother’s educational status show a clear gradient in terms of the estimated odds ratios. The district level estimation of infant and child mortality demonstrates that districts with higher burden of multiple anthropometric failures show elevated risk of infant and child mortality. Unlike previous studies, this study does not use the conventional indices, instead considered the CIAF to identify the exact and severe form of undernutrition among Indian children and the associated nexus with infant and child mortality at the district level.

scholarly journals Mother’s Health-seeking Behaviour and Childhood Mortality in Pakistan

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (4II) ◽  
pp. 719-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghulam Mustafa Zahid
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Child Mortality ◽  
Child Survival ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Childhood Mortality ◽  
Health Seeking Behaviour ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Infant And Child Mortality ◽  
Child Mortality Rate

The paper examines the Mother’s Health-seeking Behaviour and Childhood Mortality in Pakistan. This is based on the 1990-91 Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS), a nationally representative survey covering all four provinces of the country. It was found that neonatal, infant, and child mortality rate is the highest among children of mothers aged less than 20 years. Infant and Child mortality rate is likewise higher among first and higher order births than among births of second or third order. It has further found that mortality declines as the length of the birth interval increases. The results reveal that the education of mother has significant effect on the neonatal, infant and child survival, as mother’s education increases the chances of survival of neonatal, infant and child also increases. Health care factors such as antenatal care, place of delivery, assistance at delivery and immunisation also influenced neonatal, infant and child mortality. The paper suggests that for the improvement of the health conditions of children in Pakistan, first, it is necessary that the educational status of the population in general, and of mothers in particular, should be improved, and second, the health services should be accessible and available for the promotion of health care practices.

scholarly journals Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality in Bangladesh: Time Trends and Comparisons across South Asia

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
S C Karmaker ◽  
S Lahiry ◽  
D C Roy ◽  
B Singha
Keyword(s):  
Child Mortality ◽  
Birth Interval ◽  
Hazard Model ◽  
Cox Proportional Hazard Model ◽  
Proportional Hazard ◽  
Proportional Hazard Model ◽  
Wealth Status ◽  
Cox Proportional Hazard ◽  
Toilet Facility ◽  
Infant And Child Mortality

In spite of various effective intervention programs, the under-5 child mortality rate (U5MR) is still high in Bangladesh. The present paper focused on the levels, trends and determinants of U5MR in Bangladesh utilizing data from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS), 2007. Differential pattern in U5MR in Bangladesh was examined using life table technique as a bi-variate analysis and Cox proportional hazard model was used to analyze the determinants of U5MR mortality. Data from BDHS (2007) showed that U5MR during the five years preceding the survey was 65 per 1,000 live births, i.e. one in fifteen children born in Bangladesh died before reaching the fifth birthday. The risk of dying in the first month of life (37 per 1,000) was nearly two and a half times greater than in the subsequent 11 months (15 per 1,000). Deaths in the neonatal period accounted for 57 percent of all under-five deaths. In the Cox proportional hazard model analysis, factors such as the place of residence, parent’s education, father’s working status, sources of drinking water, type of toilet facility, wealth status, watching of television, mother’s age, months of breastfeeding, birth interval had significant influence on infant and child mortality. The most significant predictors of neonatal, post-neonatal, infant and child mortality were residence, parent’s education, type of toilet facility, wealth status, watching TV, months of breastfeeding, and birth interval. Despite the improvement of medical technology, child mortality remained alarmingly high, indicating that demographic, socioeconomic, household and environmental conditions must be improved to substantially reduce child mortality in this population. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjms.v13i4.20590 Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.13(4) 2014 p.431-437

Determinant of Infant and Child Mortality in Ethiopia

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yegnanew Alem Shiferaw ◽  
Meseret Zinabu ◽  
Tesfaye Abera
Keyword(s):  
Child Mortality ◽  
Infant And Child Mortality

Child Undernutrition in the States of India: An Analysis Based on Change in Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure from 2006 to 2016

2021 ◽  
pp. 097226612110103
Author(s):  
J. R. Jith ◽  
Rajshree Bedamatta
Keyword(s):  
Child Nutrition ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Wealth Index ◽  
Household Wealth ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Indian Children ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Child Undernutrition ◽  
Low Weight

Stunting, wasting and underweight—the three traditional indicators of undernourishment among children—provide mutually non-exclusive categories of anthropometric failures: low height for age, low weight for height and low weight for age. Although these indicators are essential for designing specific clinical and child nutrition policy interventions, they fall short of estimating the prevalence of overall anthropometric failure, which provides a sense of the scale of the nutrition problem. This article estimates the alternative, more comprehensive measure Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) for Indian states, based on data from the National Family Health surveys of 2006 and 2016, for children under five years (Ch–U5). The CIAF-based undernutrition estimates show significantly high anthropometric failure levels among Indian children compared to only stunting, wasting and underweight. Based on population projections for Ch–U5, we also show that a sizeable number of states may have seen an increase in child undernutrition between 2006 and 2016. We also correlated CIAF with household wealth index scores and found a positive relationship with children facing no anthropometric failure.

Spatial modeling of geographic inequalities in infant and child mortality across Nepal

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 929-936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Chin ◽  
Livia Montana ◽  
Xavier Basagaña
Keyword(s):  
Child Mortality ◽  
Spatial Modeling ◽  
Infant And Child Mortality
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