Child mortality estimation: methods used to adjust for bias due to AIDS in estimating trends in under-five mortality.

In most low- and middle-income countries, child mortality is estimated from data provided by mothers concerning the survival of their children using methods that assume no correlation between the mortality risks of the mothers and those of their children. This assumption is not valid for populations...

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Main Authors: Neff Walker, Kenneth Hill, Fengmin Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3429377?pdf=render