Citation

Koenig MA, Phillips JF, Campbell OM, D'Souza S. Demography 1990; 27(2): 251-265.

Affiliation

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Erratum On

Demography 1990 Nov;27(4):657

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Population Association of America, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2332089

Abstract

This study investigates the relationship between birth intervals and childhood mortality, using longitudinal data from rural Bangladesh known to be of exceptional accuracy and completeness. Results demonstrate significant but very distinctive effects of the previous and subsequent birth intervals on mortality, with the former concentrated in the neonatal period and the latter during early childhood. The impact of short birth intervals on mortality, however, is substantially less than that found in many previous studies of this issue, particularly for the previous birth interval. The findings are discussed in terms of the potential for family planning programs to contribute to improved child survival in settings such as Bangladesh.

Language: en