Development and validation of a new method for indirect estimation of neonatal, infant, and child mortality trends using summary birth histories.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The addition of neonatal (NN) mortality targets in the Sustainable Development Goals highlights the increased need for age-specific quantification of mortality trends, detail that is not provided by summary birth histories (SBHs). Several methods exist to indirectly estimate trends in under-5 mortality from SBHs; however, efforts to monitor mortality trends in important age groups such as the first month and first year of life have yet to utilize the vast amount of SBH data available from household surveys and censuses.

Methods and findings

We analyzed 243 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 76 countries, which collected both complete and SBHs from 8.5 million children from 2.3 million mothers to develop a new empirically based method to indirectly estimate

SUBMITTER: Burstein R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6209133 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature