Determinants of infant and early childhood mortality in Cameroon
The role of socioeconomic factors, housing characteristics, and immunization status
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5958495 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barthelemy Kuate Defo (0000-0002-6589-0564, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 181-211 |
| 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 | 10.1080/19485565.1994.9988872 |
| PMID | 7761904 |
| OpenAlex | W2015132244 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 39 |
This study examines factors impinging on the survival of children in Cameroon using longitudinal data collected by the United Nations Demographic Training and Research Institute of Yaoundé, Cameroon. It deals especially with the role of socioeconomic factors (mother's education, employment, marital status, ethnicity, and household income), housing characteristics (construction materials, power source, source of water supply, extent of crowding), and immunization status on infant and child mortality. Two-state parametric and nonparametric hazards models for the risk of death at any time within the course of the study are used, with and without accounting for unmeasured heterogeneity. Overall, overcrowding has robust deleterious effects on infant and child survival. As regards the effects of socioeconomic variables, the robustness of the effects of household income and ethnic differentials are unchanged, even after controlling for unmeasured heterogeneity; the deleterious effects of marital status are also apparent, but these effects are largely explained by unmeasured covariates. The data also suggest that the protective effects of full immunization status are robust and not contaminated by confounding factors, at least in the first 16 months of life. These findings provide solid ground to support immunization programs and efforts as a means to reduce significantly infant and child mortality
Child mortality · Confounding · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Ethnic group · Infant mortality · Marital status · Overcrowding · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Global Maternal and Child Health · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Medicine
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2025 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |