TY - JOUR
T1 - Factors causing deaths due to injury among children in Bangladesh
AU - Khan, Md Hasinur Rahaman
AU - Ahmed, Tahera
AU - Ababneh, Faisal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Md Hasinur Rahaman Khan, Tahera Ahmed and Faisal Ababneh.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Bangladesh experiences high infant and child mortality for many years, for which child injury appears to be one of the most important modes of mortality. We modelled "death due to injury" using a logistic regression to study the differentials of death due to accidental injuries fall, drowning, road accident, burn, poisoning, animal bite, cut according to different socioeconomic characteristics using Bangladesh Health and Injury Survey data. The analysis revealed that children in rural areas got injury and then died very frequently by different accidents, most of the children died from drowning, the death rate of children who were injured was highest at home and mother's education status was also an important factor for child injury and death. The uneducated mothers were not aware of the effect of injuries of their children that caused death. In most cases lack of adequate supervision carelessness turned out to be causes these accidental deaths.
AB - Bangladesh experiences high infant and child mortality for many years, for which child injury appears to be one of the most important modes of mortality. We modelled "death due to injury" using a logistic regression to study the differentials of death due to accidental injuries fall, drowning, road accident, burn, poisoning, animal bite, cut according to different socioeconomic characteristics using Bangladesh Health and Injury Survey data. The analysis revealed that children in rural areas got injury and then died very frequently by different accidents, most of the children died from drowning, the death rate of children who were injured was highest at home and mother's education status was also an important factor for child injury and death. The uneducated mothers were not aware of the effect of injuries of their children that caused death. In most cases lack of adequate supervision carelessness turned out to be causes these accidental deaths.
KW - Child health
KW - Child injury
KW - Child survival
KW - Logistic regression
KW - Modelling child injury
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U2 - 10.3844/jmssp.2015.39.44
DO - 10.3844/jmssp.2015.39.44
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84946899105
SN - 1549-3644
VL - 11
SP - 39
EP - 44
JO - Journal of Mathematics and Statistics
JF - Journal of Mathematics and Statistics
IS - 2
ER -