Residual confounding explains the association between high parity and child mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study used data from recent Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to examine the impact of high parity on under-five and neonatal mortality. The analyses used various techniques to attempt eliminating selection issues, including stratification of analyses by mothers' completed fertility.

Methods

We analyzed DHS datasets from 47 low- and middle-income countries. We only used data from women who were age 35 or older at the time of survey to have a measure of their completed fertility. We ran log-binominal regression by country to calculate relative risk between parity and both under-five and neonatal mortality, controlled for wealth quintile, maternal education, urban versus rural residence, maternal age at first birth, calendar year (to control for possible tim

SUBMITTER: Kozuki N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3847621 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature