Using data from India's National Family Health Survey, 2005–06 (NFHS-3), this article
examines the patterns of relationship between birth order and infant mortality. The analysis …

Background Infant mortality accounts for almost 67 percent of under-five child mortality that
occurs globally. An understanding of factors related to infant mortality is important to guide …

Health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa are characteristically poor and Nigeria is no
exception. Despite the recorded decline in infant and under five mortality rates in Nigeria …

Background Uganda just like any other Sub-Saharan African country, has a high under-five
child mortality rate. To inform policy on intervention strategies, sound statistical methods are …

Studying fitness consequences of variable behavioural, physiological and cognitive traits in
contemporary populations constitutes the specific contribution of human behavioural …

Growing work demonstrates social gradients in infant mortality within countries. However,
few studies have compared the magnitude of these inequalities cross-nationally. Even fewer …

Background Childhood mortality rate is high in Nigeria. There is dearth of information on the
comparison of childhood mortality probability and its causal factors in the Northern and …

This study examines the residual geographical variations in infant and child mortality and
how the different categories of the risk factors account for the spatial inequality in West …

Objective The main objective of this study is to investigate how the direction and strength of
the association between infant mortality and its predictors are changing over time in …

BACKGROUND: Children under-five constitute 11.9%(n= 20,447,628) of the total population
of Pakistan. Poor water and sanitation in Pakistan cause 97,900 deaths annually, 54,000 of …