Child mortality estimation: methods used to adjust for bias due to AIDS in estimating trends in under-five mortality.

ABSTRACT: In most low- and middle-income countries, child mortality is estimated from data provided by mothers concerning the survival of their children using methods that assume no correlation between the mortality risks of the mothers and those of their children. This assumption is not valid for populations with generalized HIV epidemics, however, and in this review, we show how the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) uses a cohort component projection model to correct for AIDS-related biases in the data used to estimate trends in under-five mortality. In this model, births in a given year are identified as occurring to HIV-positive or HIV-negative mothers, the lives of the infants and mothers are projected forward using survivorship probabilities to estimate

SUBMITTER: Walker N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3429377 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature