Determinants of death among under-5 children in Bangladesh

Md. Sazedur Rahman, Md. Saidur Rahman and Md. Ashfikur Rahman

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Abstract: Background It is well established that improving human health has direct obvious payoff on enhancing life expectancy along with economic growth. Under-5 child mortality deliberately used to understand a countries overall public health status. In Bangladesh, child mortality remains a significant public health problem. Therefore, the chief intention of this undertaken study was to ascertain the best possible important factors of pre-school child mortality in Bangladesh. Methods This study was based on large dataset of Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2014 (BDHS-2014). Based on an extensive literature review thirteen covariates were selected. Chi-square test was accomplished to find out the association with under-5 deaths. The factors which achieved statistical significance (p

Keywords: Determinants; Child; Mortality; Under-5; Infant; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01-10, Revised 2019-02-18
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Published in Journal of Research and Opinion 6.3(2019): pp. 2294-2302

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