Socio-economic, macroeconomic, demographic, and environmental variables as determinants of child mortality in South Asia

Zakaria, Muhammad; Tariq, Samia; Husnain, Muhammad Iftikhar ul

doi:10.1007/s11356-019-06988-w

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“…Many experimental studies, like those of Zakaria et al (2020), Mandal and Chouhan (2020), Kousar et al (2020), Ahmed and Muftawu (2018), Soest and Saha (2018), Nilima et al (2018), among others, have considered the essential socio-economic and female indicators of child mortality. For instance, Zakaria et al (2020) conducted a study on the socioeconomic, macroeconomic, demographic, and environmental variables as determinants of child mortality in South Asia, where they found that the per capita income, immunization, urbanization, trade openness and high life expectancy reduced, while high fertility rate increased child mortality during the period of 1973 -2015. But in their study they considered only fertility among females as an indicator of child mortality and other important female indicators were not observed.…”

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“…However, his study considered only two variables and other related factors were ignored. Many experimental studies, like those of Zakaria et al. (2020), Mandal and Chouhan (2020), Kousar et al.…”

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“…In contemporary literature, a number of experimental works have been found to be related to the socio-economic and female indicators of child mortality (see Chowdhury et al., 2020; Kousar et al., 2020; Mandal & Chouhan, 2020; Rahman et al., 2018; Zakaria et al., 2020, among others). To attain the goal of being a developed country Bangladesh will have to maintain lower child mortality, fertility and improved female health and economic participation, along with planned urbanization.…”

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The Role of Socio-economic and Female Indicators on Child Mortality Rate in Bangladesh: A Time Series Analysis

Rahman

Alam

2021

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This study aims to identify the role of socio-economic and female indicators on child mortality in Bangladesh from the data of 1975 – 2019. A number of econometric techniques of time series analysis like Augmented Dickey-Fuller, Autoregressive Distributive Lag bounds and pair-wise Granger causality tests have been applied to ascertain the desired outcomes. The Augmented Dickey-Fuller test has confirmed that neither series is integrated at level two and the Autoregressive Distributive Lag bounds testing approach has shown the cointegration and short-run and long-run relationship between the variables. Total fertility rate and urbanization have a positive effect, and female education, female life expectancy at birth, and economic growth rate have a negative effect on the child mortality rate. The pair-wise Granger causality test has shown the unidirectional and bidirectional causal relationship among the studied variables. All the outcomes are theoretically consistent and the policy recommendations are made based on findings.

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The Role of Socio-economic and Female Indicators on Child Mortality Rate in Bangladesh: A Time Series Analysis

Rahman

Alam

2021

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“…It has been long acknowledged that there are many determinants of child mortality, ranging from proximate determinants to socio-economic determinants [8]. Given the need for information to support interventions, ample studies worldwide focus on the determinants of child mortality [9][10][11][12]. Most of these studies focus on the socio-economic determinants of child mortality.…”

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Socio-economic, demographic, and environmental determinants of under-five mortality in Indonesia: insights from a national survey

Prasetyoputra¹,

Prasojo²,

Sitohang³

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Despite great improvements in childhood mortality in the past several decades, many Indonesian children did not surpass their fifth birthday. This paper investigates the social and environmental determinants of under-five (U-5) mortality in Indonesia. By utilising the most recent Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) in 2017, we fitted survival regression models to the data. We observed that maternal smoking (aHR = 2.15, 95% CI = 1.15–4.03), maternal age (aHR = 2.48, 95% CI = 1.43–4.30), and maternal employment status (aHR = 1.68, 95% CI = 1.34–2.11) correspond to shorter lives of U-5 children. Conversely, we found that higher maternal education (aHR = 0.50, 95% CI = 0.29–0.87) corresponds to better child survival. Improved household sanitation also negatively associated with child mortality, albeit statistically insignificant at 5% (aHR = 0.78, 95% CI = 0.60–1.01). These associations hold after we take into account proximate and biological correlates. These findings corroborate extant literature that living environment (not only socio-economic and demographic factors) plays a prominent role in determining child survival. Hence, increasing access to and reducing the rural-urban gap related to improved sanitation facilities and curtailing smoking prevalence are paramount in further curbing child mortality.

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“…These findings are in line with the general fact that improvements in economic conditions reduce mortality in developed and less developed countries (Birchenall 2007 , O’Hare et al 2013 ). Simultaneously, Zakaria et al ( 2020 ) revealed that human capital, income per capita and urbanization are factors that reduce child mortality.…”

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Fatal injuries and economic development in the population sample of Central and Eastern European Countries: the perspective of adolescents

Miovský

Gavurová

Ivanková

et al. 2020

Int J Public Health

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Objectives Researches consider the young generation (adolescents) to be the population group whose mortality from injury has the lowest effect on economic growth. The objective was to evaluate the relations between economic indicators and preventable injury mortality in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs), with a primary focus on adolescents. Methods The analyses included health indicators of preventable injury mortality and economic indicators that represent human development and economic growth in the CEECs from 1990 to 2016. The analytical process involved a population group divided by age (0–14 years: children, 15–24 years: adolescents, 25–74 years: adults) and gender. Descriptive analysis, cluster analysis and primarily panel regression analysis were used. Results Significant effects of economic indicators on drowning were found in all analysed relations. In the group of adolescents, significant effects of fatal falls were found. Overall, it can be concluded that the effects of fatal injuries are not homogenous between age and gender groups. Conclusions The effects of years and individual countries should be taken into account in the cross-sectional analyses. In terms of economic growth, public policies should focus on drowning in children, on falls in adolescents and on transport accidents, fire injuries and poisoning in adults.

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Socio-economic, macroeconomic, demographic, and environmental variables as determinants of child mortality in South Asia

Cited by 16 publications

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The Role of Socio-economic and Female Indicators on Child Mortality Rate in Bangladesh: A Time Series Analysis

The Role of Socio-economic and Female Indicators on Child Mortality Rate in Bangladesh: A Time Series Analysis

Socio-economic, demographic, and environmental determinants of under-five mortality in Indonesia: insights from a national survey

Fatal injuries and economic development in the population sample of Central and Eastern European Countries: the perspective of adolescents

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