Have inequalities in all-cause and cause-specific child mortality between countries declined across the world?

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Comparing the distribution of all cause or cause-specific child mortality in countries by income and its progress over time has not been rigorously monitored, and hence remains unknown. We therefore aimed to analyze child mortality disparities between countries with respect to income level and progression for the period 2000-2015, and further explored the convergence of unequal income levels across the globe. METHODS:Four types of measures were used to assess the degree of inequality across countries: difference and ratio of child mortality rate, the concentration index, and the Erreygers index. To assess the longitudinal trend of unequal child mortality rate by wealth ranking, hierarchical mixed effect analysis was used to examine any significant changes in the slope of under-5

SUBMITTER: Cha S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6938619 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature