J HEALTH POPUL NUTR 2015 Mar;33(1):187-206 ISSN 1606-0997 | $ 5.00+0.20
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Unmet Need for Family Planning: Implication for Under-five Mortality in Nigeria Sunday Adepoju Adedini1,2, Clifford Odimegwu1, Eunice Ntwala Imasiku1,3, Dorothy Ngozi Ononokpono4 Demography and Population Studies Programme, Schools of Public Health and Social Sciences, University of the
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Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; 2Demography and Social Statistics Department, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; 3Department of Geography, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia; 4Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
ABSTRACT There are gaps in evidence on whether unmet need for family planning has any implication for under-five mortality in Nigeria.This study utilized 2008 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey data to examine the effect of unmet need on under-five mortality. Cox regression analysis was performed on 28,647 children born by a nationally-representative sample of 18,028 women within the five years preceding the survey. Findings indicated elevated risks of under-five death for children whose mothers had unmet need for spacing [Hazard ratio (HR): 1.60, confidence interval (CI) 1.37-1.86, p
©INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH, BANGLADESH
Unmet Need for Family Planning: Implication for Under-five Mortality in Nigeria Sunday Adepoju Adedini1,2, Clifford Odimegwu1, Eunice Ntwala Imasiku1,3, Dorothy Ngozi Ononokpono4 Demography and Population Studies Programme, Schools of Public Health and Social Sciences, University of the
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Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; 2Demography and Social Statistics Department, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; 3Department of Geography, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia; 4Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
ABSTRACT There are gaps in evidence on whether unmet need for family planning has any implication for under-five mortality in Nigeria.This study utilized 2008 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey data to examine the effect of unmet need on under-five mortality. Cox regression analysis was performed on 28,647 children born by a nationally-representative sample of 18,028 women within the five years preceding the survey. Findings indicated elevated risks of under-five death for children whose mothers had unmet need for spacing [Hazard ratio (HR): 1.60, confidence interval (CI) 1.37-1.86, p
