Fine and Gray competing risk regression model to study the cause-specific under-five child mortality in Bangladesh

BMC International Health and Human Rights

Research Article

Khandoker Akib Mohammad¹  Most. Fatima-Tuz-Zahura¹  Wasimul Bari¹ 

[1] Department of Statistics, Biostatistics & Informatics, University of Dhaka, 1000, Dhaka, Bangladesh;

关键词: Competing risk;    Cumulative incidence function;    Hazard function;    Under-five mortality;    Sub-distribution hazard ratio;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12914-017-0112-8

 received in 2016-04-04, accepted in 2017-01-17,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe cause-specific under-five mortality of Bangladesh has been studied by fitting cumulative incidence function (CIF) based Fine and Gray competing risk regression model (1999). For the purpose of analysis, Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS), 2011 data set was used.MethodsThree types of mode of mortality for the under-five children are considered. These are disease, non-disease and other causes. Product-Limit survival probabilities for the under-five child mortality with log-rank test were used to select a set of covariates for the regression model. The covariates found to have significant association in bivariate analysis were only considered in the regression analysis.ResultsPotential determinants of under-five child mortality due to disease is size of child at birth, while gender of child, NGO (non-government organization) membership of mother, mother’s education level, and size of child at birth are due to non-disease and age of mother at birth, NGO membership of mother, and mother’s education level are for the mortality due to other causes.ConclusionFemale participation in the education programs needs to be increased because of the improvement of child health and government should arrange family and social awareness programs as well as health related programs for women so that they are aware of their child health.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s). 2017

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