Preventable Neonatal Deaths and Maternal and Child Factors in a Region of Brazil: Panel Data Modeling

Tiê Dias de Farias Coutinho and Neir Antunes Paes ()
Additional contact information
Tiê Dias de Farias Coutinho: Federal University of Paraíba, Health and Decision Modelling Postgraduate Course
Neir Antunes Paes: Federal University of Paraíba, Health and Decision Modelling Postgraduate Course

Chapter Chapter 14 in Quantitative Demography and Health Estimates, 2023, pp 175-186 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A Preventable neonatal mortality (0–7 days) is an important public health problem worldwide, and it acquires relevance in underdeveloped regions such as the state of Paraíba in Brazil, where there is a dominant presence of rural municipalities. For this region, among the 15 causes of death with the highest frequency among neonatal deaths, 11 of them were of the preventable type, corresponding to 38.5% of neonatal deaths, which were influenced by different maternal-infant contexts. Thus, the main objective was to associate the set of preventable neonatal death causes with maternal and child risk factors for the state of Paraíba in Brazil in the period from 2009 to 2017. A longitudinal ecological study of the causes of neonatal deaths was carried out with all 223 municipalities in the state of Paraíba, based on information on variables present in the Death Certificate and the Birth Certificate. An exploratory approach was carried out on the quality of records of preventable causes of death and the main maternal-infant variables that appear in the Declarations between the regionalized spaces (urban, adjacent intermediate and adjacent rural). The proportion of neonatal deaths from preventable causes was assumed as the response variable, and nine of the main maternal-infant variables as explanatory. After performing the modeling between several tested panel data models, the final model was generated using the random effects model of least squares weighted with transformed variable, which obtained an adjustment R2 equal to 72.35, with the significant variables (p

Keywords: Neonatal mortality; Urban-rural; Preventable deaths; Panel data; Associated cause (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:ssdmcp:978-3-031-28697-1_14

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783031286971

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-28697-1_14

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().