Estimation of district-level under-5 mortality in Zambia using birth history data, 1980-2010

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2014, Pages 89-107

  Dwyer Lindgren, Laura ^a   Kakungu, Frank ^b   Hangoma, Peter ^c   Ng, Marie ^a   Wang, Haidong ^a   Flaxman, Abraham D ^a   Masiye, Felix ^c   Gakidou, Emmanuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Central Statistical Office   (Zambia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Birth history methods; Child mortality; Geospatial analysis; Small area estimation; Spatial temporal smoothing; Under 5 mortality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH HISTORY DATA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FERTILITY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; ZAMBIA; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84908562624     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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