National and regional under-5 mortality rate by economic status for low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The progress to achieve the fourth Millennium Development Goal in reducing mortality rate in children younger than 5 years since 1990 has been remarkable. However, work remains to be done in the Sustainable Development Goal era. Estimates of under-5 mortality rates at the national level can hide disparities within countries. We assessed disparities in under-5 mortality rates by household economic status in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Method

We estimated country-year-specific under-5 mortality rates by wealth quintile on the basis of household wealth indices for 137 LMICs from 1990 to 2016, using a Bayesian statistical model. We estimated the association between quintile-specific and national-level under-5 mortality rates. We assessed the levels

SUBMITTER: Chao F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5905403 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature