Geographical variation in the association of child, maternal and household health interventions with under-five mortality in Burkina Faso.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Over the past 15 years, scaling up of cost effective interventions resulted in a remarkable decline of under-five mortality rates (U5MR) in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the reduction shows considerable heterogeneity. We estimated the association of child, maternal, and household interventions with U5MR in Burkina Faso at national and subnational levels and identified the regions with least effective interventions. METHODS:Data on health-related interventions and U5MR were extracted from the Burkina Faso Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2010. Bayesian geostatistical proportional hazards models with a Weibull baseline hazard were fitted on the mortality outcome. Spatially varying coefficients were considered to assess the geographical variation in the association of the health

SUBMITTER: Millogo O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6602179 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature