OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with mortality in children under 5 years of age using a nationally representative sample of singleton births for the period of 2004-2011. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Pooled 2004, 2007 and 2011 cross-sectional data sets of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Surveys were analysed. The surveys used a stratified two-stage ...

This article uses vital statistics relating to births by Canadian mothers between 1992 and 1994 to examine the distribution of age of father by age of mother at the birth of the child. Over 77% of births to teenage mothers involved males who were older than the mother. At the time of birth of the child, the mean difference between age of the teenage mother and the father was 4.1 years, compared...

OBJECTIVES To identify the determinants of institutional delivery among young married women in Nepal. DESIGN Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) data sets 2011 were analysed. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed using a subset of 1662 ever-married young women (aged 15-24 years). OUTCOME MEASURE Place of delivery. RESULTS The rate of institutional d...

BACKGROUND The aims of this study were to examine the impact of child HIV infection on mortality and to identify nutritional and sociodemographic factors that increase the risk of child mortality independent of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. METHODS We conducted a prospective study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, among 687 children 6-60 months of age who were admitted to hospital w...

This article uses Danish media discourses on racialized children’s schooling as a lens through which to analyse how issues of kinship and family play into nation-building processes representations ‘the child’. The addresses the question distribution children, mostly termed ‘bilingual pupils’, at schools, is recurrent theme in public debate. representation this issue framed around an ideal sprea...