Birth spacing, breastfeeding, and early child mortality in a traditional Indian society
A hazards model analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5958337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dilip C Nath (Duke University, corresponding author), K C Land (0000-0002-9551-7314, Duke University), Kaushalendra Kumar Singh (0000-0002-8776-6126, Banaras Hindu University) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 168-180 |
| Publication date | 1994-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biodemography and Social Biology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1948-5565 • E-ISSN: 1948-5573 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19485565.1994.9988871 |
| PMID | 7761903 |
| OpenAlex | W2141396079 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 19 |
There are few studies of the interrelationships among breastfeeding, child spacing, and child mortality in traditional societies that incorporate extensive controls for social and demographic characteristics of the mother and child. In this paper, we investigate the impact of breastfeeding and the length of the preceding birth interval on early child mortality (defined as a death in the first two years of life) using data from a traditional society of India. Multivariate hazards models are used to analyze the data. Most prior analyses related the impact of breastfeeding duration to the duration of child survivability by taking breastfeeding as a fixed covariate. The present study has a methodological focus in the sense that breastfeeding information from retrospective survey data is treated as a time-dependent covariate both as a status variate as well as a duration--with empirical findings compared across the two specifications. The effects of postpartum amenorrhoea and various other demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of mother and child are also studied. The results suggest that breastfeeding duration has a strong impact in reducing the relative risk of early child mortality; but it does not explain the effect of the length of the preceding birth interval on early child mortality
Breastfeeding · Child mortality · Confidence interval · Covariate · Duration (music · Fertility · Hazard ratio · Infant mortality · Population · Proportional hazards model · Socioeconomic status · Statistics · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Global Maternal and Child Health · Mathematics · Medicine · Pediatrics
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2021 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |