Impact of multisectoral health determinants on child mortality 1980-2010: An analysis by country baseline mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Some health determinants require relatively stronger health system capacity and socioeconomic development than others to impact child mortality. Few quantitative analyses have analyzed how the impact of health determinants varies by mortality level.

Methods

149 low- and middle-income countries were stratified into high, moderate, low, and very low baseline levels of child mortality in 1990. Data for 52 health determinants were collected for these countries for 1980-2010. To quantify how changes in health determinants were associated with mortality decline, univariable and multivariable regression models were constructed. An advanced statistical technique that is new for child mortality analyses-MM-estimation with first differences and country clustering-controll

SUBMITTER: Cohen RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5718556 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature