Bayesian Geoadditive Mixed Latent Variable Models with Applications to Child Health Problems in Egypt and Nigeria

Khaled Khatab ()
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Khaled Khatab: Sheffield Hallam University, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Centre for Health and Social Care Research

Chapter Chapter 4 in Advanced Techniques for Modelling Maternal and Child Health in Africa, 2014, pp 49-81 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Childhood diseases and malnutrition are still a major cause of death of children in the developing world. This work focuses on investigating the impact of the important risk factors and geographical location on child morbidity and malnutrition in Egypt and Nigeria. Previous research has usually carried out separate regression analyses for certain diseases or types of malnutrition, neglecting possible association between them. Based on data from the Demographic and Health Survey of 2003, we apply recently developed geoadditive latent variable models, taking cough, fever and diarrhea as well as stunting and underweight as observable indicators for the latent variables morbidity and malnutrition. This allows studying the common impact of risk factors and geographical location on these latent variables, thereby taking account of association within a joint model. Our analysis identifies socio-economic and public health factors, nonlinear effects of age and other continuous covariates as well as spatial effects jointly influencing morbidity and malnutrition.

Keywords: Latent Variable; Spatial Effect; Latent Variable Model; Manifest Variable; Binary Indicator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6778-2_4

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