TY - JOUR
T1 - Maternal and sociodemographic correlates of child morbidity in Bas Zaire
T2 - The effects of maternal reporting
AU - Tsui, Amy Ong
AU - DeClerque, Julia
AU - Mangani, Nlandu
PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - Cross-sectional survey data, collected in Bas Zaire from the mothers of 1200 urban and 1670 rural children born in the last 5 years, are used to assess variations in diarrheal, malarial, helminthic, and other child morbidities by selected household, maternal and child factors. In a multivariate analysis, we focus on maternal age and birth order as determinants of recent illnesses to observe any parallels in their effects on child mortality. These relationships are found after adjusting for bias from differential maternal perceptions of illnesses.
AB - Cross-sectional survey data, collected in Bas Zaire from the mothers of 1200 urban and 1670 rural children born in the last 5 years, are used to assess variations in diarrheal, malarial, helminthic, and other child morbidities by selected household, maternal and child factors. In a multivariate analysis, we focus on maternal age and birth order as determinants of recent illnesses to observe any parallels in their effects on child mortality. These relationships are found after adjusting for bias from differential maternal perceptions of illnesses.
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U2 - 10.1016/0277-9536(88)90062-7
DO - 10.1016/0277-9536(88)90062-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 3358144
AN - SCOPUS:0023823366
SN - 0277-9536
VL - 26
SP - 701
EP - 713
JO - Social Science and Medicine
JF - Social Science and Medicine
IS - 7
ER -