Is there any association between parental education and child mortality? A study in a rural area of Bangladesh

Public Health

Volumn 129, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1602-1609

  Akter, T ^a,c   Hoque, D M E ^b   Chowdhury, E K ^b   Rahman, M ^b   Russell, M ^a   Arifeen, S E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Parental education; Under five mortality

Indexed keywords

CHILD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING WORLD; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; RURAL AREA; SECONDARY EDUCATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FATHER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSING; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; PARENTAL EDUCATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; TREND STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; PARENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

BANGLADESH;

BANGLADESH; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PARENTS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84952638662     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: 14765616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2015.08.004     Document Type: Article

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