Association between ethnicity and under-5 mortality: analysis of data from demographic surveys from 36 low-income and middle-income countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for stratification of social indicators by ethnic groups; however, no recent multicountry analyses on ethnicity and child survival have been done in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Methods

We used data from Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys collected between 2010 and 2016, from LMICs that provided birth histories and information on ethnicity or a proxy variable. We calculated neonatal (age 0-27 days), post-neonatal (age 28-364 days), child (age 1-4 years), and under-5 mortality rates (U5MRs) for each ethnic group within each country. We assessed differences in mortality between ethnic groups using a likelihood ratio test, Theil's index, and between-group variance.

SUBMITTER: Victora CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7034191 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature