Women's education and health inequalities in under-five mortality in selected sub-Saharan African countries, 1990–2015

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2016

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The aim of the study was to analyse trends in the relationship between mother’s educational level and mortality of children under the year of five in Sub-Saharan Africa, from 1990 to 2015.Data used in this study came from different waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) of Sub-Saharan countries. Logistic regression and Buis’s decomposition method were used to explore the effect of mother’s educational level on the mortality of children under five years.

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Women's education, Health inequalities, Mortality, Sub-Saharan African countries

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Bado, A.R., & Sathiya Susuman, A. (2016). Women's education and health inequalities in under five mortality in selected Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1990–2015. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0159186. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0159186

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159186
 http://hdl.handle.net/10566/6541

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Research Articles (Statistics & Population Studies)