Is there any association between undesired children and health status of under-five children? Analysis of a nationally representative sample from Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Child health, especially childhood mortality, is one of the critical indicators of human development. No child mortality is desirable, but it is still high in Bangladesh. We aimed to assess the effect of the child's desired status on childhood morbidity and mortality in Bangladesh.

Methods

We used the data from the nationally representative cross-sectional Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2017-18 and restricted the analyses to children born in the past five years preceding the survey. We estimated the undesired status (excess in boy, girl, both, and parity) by subtracting an ideal number of children from the total live birth. We measured childhood mortality (perinatal, early neonatal, neonatal, post-neonatal, infant, child, and under-five mortality)

SUBMITTER: Alam MZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9310505 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature