Romeo Lee, Kennith Gregory Dillena

National level factors associated with child underweight and infant mortality rates. Multi-country evidence

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Produktbeschreibung

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Health - Miscellaneous, De La Salle University (Department of Behavioural Sciences), language: English, abstract: Although various analyses have identified structural factors having statistically significant associations with child underweight and infant mortality rates, their focus has only thinly involved national level data from multiple countries. Using national level data from 62 countries, the present analysis determined the statistical relationships of child underweight and infant mortality rates with structural factors, such as poverty, education, antenatal care, skilled providers, contraceptive use, and access to water and sanitation. The two dependent variables were both statistically significantly associated with all the seven independent variables. The strengths of their bivariate association were mainly moderate to high, while the direction of the associations of child underweight and infant mortality rates were positive with poverty and negative with the other factors. When the development level of countries was used as the control variable, many of the observed associations considerably weakened in terms of their statistical significance and strength. Overall, the analysis underscores the importance of structural factors and development level of countries as influencers of health outcomes involving children and infants.

Produktdetails

• Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V342394
• Verlag: GRIN Verlag
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 24
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 51g
• ISBN-13: 9783668324367
• ISBN-10: 3668324360
• Artikelnr.: 46762833

Autorenporträt

Romeo B. Lee has been researching and publishing on health covering a variety of topics (e.g., sexuality) and sectors (e.g., adolescents, men) in the Philippines. He has a PhD in Demography (The Australian National University), a Master in PopulationResearch (The University of Exeter), a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Research (University of the Philippines). He is a full professor at De La Salle University in Manila, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in behavioural sciences. [e-mail]