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7983098

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pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-1-4
pubmed:abstractText
This paper examines the effects of a child's place of birth, mother's education, region of residence and rural and urban residence on infant mortality in Nigeria between 1965 and 1979, using data from the 1981/82 Nigeria Fertility Survey. Infant mortality rates declined in all regions between 1965 and 1979. Children born in modern health facilities, irrespective of their mothers' place of residence, experienced significantly lower rates of infant mortality than those born elsewhere. Logistic regression analysis showed that all other variables tested were also significant, although some to a lesser degree. Efforts to reduce infant mortality in Nigeria should include policies that rectify rural and urban differentials in the distribution of health facilities and encourage their use.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-9320
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
469-77
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:otherAbstract
PIP: Infant mortality in Nigeria has varied with region of residence. Logistic models were used to examine the factors related to infant mortality in Nigeria. Data was obtained from the 1981/82 World Fertility Survey for Nigeria. Place of delivery, modern or traditional, was used to measure extent of use of health services. The assumption was that infant mortality would be higher for babies not delivered in a modern health care center. Anomalies in the data were the low infant mortality rate among home deliveries in the southwest between 1965 and 1969 and the lack of mortality differentials among hospital deliveries during the 1970s. The proportions of home and hospital deliveries between the study period of 1965 and 1979 was stable. Analysis of three periods, 1965-69, 1970-74, and 1975-79, showed that there was slight improvement in mortality risks among children born in hospitals, except those born in hospitals in the northwest. There was also a slight decline in risk for home births in the south. The logistic analysis suggested that infant and child mortality rates tended to be significantly higher for children of mothers who did not use modern health facilities for delivery. All variables were significantly associated with infant mortality: region, period, rural-urban residence, place of delivery, and mother's education. Each variable was reduced in level of significance with the control for the other variables. Infant mortality risks were lowest in the 1975-79 period. Risks were highest in rural areas and among home births. There was an inverse relationship with maternal education, except for infant mortality among women with incomplete or primary or Koranic education, which was higher than among women with no education. The odds ratios did not change much when place of delivery was controlled. The odds ratio of infant mortality was lowest in the southwest, with controls for maternal education. The implication was that better distribution of health facilities in rural areas was needed in order to influence a decline in infant mortality.
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Infant mortality in Nigeria: effects of place of birth, mother's education and region of residence.
pubmed:affiliation
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article