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Effects of Health Related Factors on Neonatal, Post Neonatal, Infant and Child Mortality
Quamrul H.Chowdhury, Rafiqul Islam and Kamal Hossain
Corresponding Author: Rafiqul Islam
Submitted: 2009 June, 27
Accepted: 2009 August, 17
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The purpose of this study is to determine health related factors that affect neonatal, post neonatal,
infant and child mortality. For this, the data is collected using multistage sampling technique and direct method
of mortality estimation, contingency analysis and logistic regression procedure has been applied. The results
show post-neonatal mortality rate (PNNMR) is higher for the children who are not immunized at all (e.g.,
PNNMR is 250.00 per 1000 live births). The infant of the house gets treatment facility from traditional sources
considerably have higher mortality and also respondents who have not taken medical check up, while lower
in mothers’ child who get sufficient medical check up (e.g. child mortality rate (CMR) is 6.13 per1000 live
births). The Chi-square (χ2) test result implies that immunization, treatment place and medical check up during
pregnancy are highly significantly associated with neonatal, post neonatal, infant and child mortality.
Multivariate analysis results designate immunization, types of delivery, medical check up duration of pregnancy
and health check up for child have crucial influence on mortality of post-neonatal period but in infant and child
period, immunization practices and treatment place of women have significant effects on mortality. Therefore,
women are required to bring in cycle of women-child health awareness based programme and community
health system to reduce infant and child mortality in Bangladesh.
Key words: Neonatal, post-neonatal, infant and child mortality rate, health related characteristics, chi-square (χ2) test, logistic regression analysis,
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Quamrul H.Chowdhury, Rafiqul Islam and Kamal Hossain, . Effects of Health Related Factors on Neonatal, Post Neonatal, Infant and Child Mortality. Current Research Journal of Biological Sciences, (3): Page No: 83-88.
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