Household context and child mortality in rural South Africa: The effects of birth spacing, shared mortality, household composition and socio-economic status

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1444-1454

  Houle, Brian ^a   Stein, Alan ^b,c   Kahn, Kathleen ^b,d,e   Madhavan, Sangeetha ^b,f   Collinson, Mark ^b,d,e   Tollman, Stephen M ^b,d,e   Clark, Samuel J ^a,b,e,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Iganga Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site   (Ghana)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth spacing; Child mortality; Health and demographic surveillance system; HIV; Household; Rural; Socio economic status; South africa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CATCHMENT; CHILD MORTALITY; DATA SET; HEALTH RISK; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BIRTH CONTROL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DYING; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIBLING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA; FAMILY PLANNING; FAMILY SIZE; HIV INFECTIONS; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL DEATH; MORTALITY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUBERCULOSIS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

BIRTH INTERVALS; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL DEATH; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84886446182     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyt149     Document Type: Article

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