Under-5 Mortality in Tanzania: a demographic scenario

dc.contributor.authorAppunni, Sathiya Susuman
dc.contributor.authorHamisi, Hamisi F.
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-25T10:02:42Z
dc.date.available2013-11-25T10:02:42Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractBackground: The government of the United Republic of Tanzania has initiated the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness program to improve the health and wellbeing of children. Methods: Tanzania’s under-five mortality rate is still 1.7 times higher than the world average and, in order to achieve its Millennium Development Goal 4 target, its annual reduction rate is quite low at 2.2. The main aim of the study is to examine under-five mortality combined with the Data from the Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2008 data was used. Odds ratios for infant and under-five mortality were estimated using logistic regression; crude and adjusting models were adopted. Results: Mortality cases (18.3%) have been reported to children born with an interval of <24 months. Mothers with no education reported 14.6%, primary education mothers reported 11.1% and higher education reported only 5.3% (P<0.001). Therefore, maternal education plays is a major role on fertility and infant and under-five mortality behavior. Conclusion: Maternal education also influences a mother’s behavior in her usage of available health services to improve the health of the children. Further in-depth analysis is immensely needed in this situation.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationAppunni, S.S. & Hamisi, H.F. (2012). Under-5 Mortality in Tanzania: a demographic scenario. Iranian Journal of Public Health, 41(12): 8-18en_US
dc.identifier.issn2251-6085
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/854
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherTehran University of Medical Sciencesen_US
dc.rights© 2012 Appunni & Hamisi; licensee Tehran University of Medical Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectMortality rateen_US
dc.subjectUnder-5 mortalityen_US
dc.subjectChild mortalityen_US
dc.subjectInfant mortalityen_US
dc.subjectBirth intervalen_US
dc.titleUnder-5 Mortality in Tanzania: a demographic scenarioen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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