Birth Intervals and Childhood Mortality in Rural Bangladesh

Sex Differentials in Mortality in Rural Bangladesh

The validity of birth and pregnancy histories in rural Bangladesh

BACKGROUND Maternity histories provide a means of estimating fertility and mortality from surveys. METHODS The present analysis compares two types of maternity histories-birth histories and pregnancy histories-in three respects: (1) completeness of live birth and infant death reporting; (2) accuracy of the time placement of live births and infant deaths; and (3) the degree to which reported v...

The impact of childhood mortality on fertility in six rural thanas of Bangladesh.

In this article, we examine the relationship between child mortality and subsequent fertility using prospective longitudinal data on births and childhood deaths occurring to nearly 8000 Bangladeshi mothers observed over the 1982-1993 period, a time of rapid fertility decline. Generalized hazard-regression analyses are employed to assess the effect of infant and child mortality on the hazard of ...

Nutritional status and childhood wheezing in rural Bangladesh.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between current childhood nutritional status and current wheezing among pre-school children in rural Bangladesh. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Matlab region, rural Bangladesh. SUBJECTS Children (n 912) aged 4·5 years. Anthropometric measurements of the mothers and their children were taken during a 1-year period from December 2007 to Novemb...

Short preceding birth intervals and child mortality in Mozambique.

This paper examines the risk of child mortality associated with short preceding birth intervals in Mozambique. We apply a piecewise log-rate model to a pooled dataset comprising 36,305 live births from the 1997 and 2003 Mozambique Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Our results show that the effects of short preceding intervals are strongest during the first month of life, particularly the fi...