A new method that does not rely on standard social class categorizations is proposed for
measuring and comparing the concentration of mortality risk among families in different …

After decades of sustained child mortality reductions, infant and early childhood mortality
levels in Africa remain high. This can partly be ascribed to the concentration of child mortality …

Background Globally, infant mortality is a major public health concern and a sensitive
indicator of countries' socio-economic and health status. Despite the substantial reduction of …

This analysis of infant mortality in Bangladesh focuses on explaining death clustering within
families, using prospective data from a rural region in Bangladesh, split into areas with and …

This introduction surveys the field of family clustering of deaths and discusses the
contributions in this special issue. The main focus is on mortality in historical contexts …

The negative relationship between birth interval length and neonatal mortality risks is well
documented, but heterogeneity in this relationship has been largely ignored. Using the …

Drought is an important downside risk in Indian agriculture; and the spatial differences in its
intensity and probability of occurrence are considerable. To develop strategies to manage …

There has been a substantial reduction in infant mortality in many Western countries and in
some developing countries in this century. In some of these countries infant mortality is as …

A considerable body of research has studied the effects of siblings on child mortality through
birth intervals. This research has commonly focused on older siblings. We argue that birth …

Multilevel Poisson models are used to identify factors influencing variation in census ward
level teenage conception rates. Multilevel logistic models are also employed to examine the …