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The effects of sex, birthweight, birth order and maternal age on infant mortality in a Nigerian community

Olusola Ayeni Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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S. Olu. Oduntan Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Pages 353-358 | Received 01 Nov 1977, Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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VijayanK. Pillai & Subir Bandyopadhyay. (1997) Age effects on infant mortality controlling for race: A meta‐analytical study. Health Care for Women International 18:2, pages 115-126.
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Ronak Paul, Shobhit Srivastava & Rashmi Rashmi. (2022) Examining infant and child death clustering among families in the cross-sectional and nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2017–2018. BMJ Open 12:6, pages e053782.
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Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Wullo Sisay Seretew, Misganaw Gebrie Worku & Dessie Abebaw Angaw. (2021) Trends of infant mortality and its determinants in Ethiopia: mixed-effect binary logistic regression and multivariate decomposition analysis. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 21:1.
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S. K. Mishra, Bali Ram, Abhishek Singh & Awdhesh Yadav. (2017) BIRTH ORDER, STAGE OF INFANCY AND INFANT MORTALITY IN INDIA. Journal of Biosocial Science 50:5, pages 604-625.
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Samson B. Adebayo & Ludwig Fahrmeir. (2005) Analysing child mortality in Nigeria with geoadditive discrete‐time survival models. Statistics in Medicine 24:5, pages 709-728.
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Helen L. Guyatt & Robert W. Snow. (2001) Malaria in pregnancy as an indirect cause of infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 95:6, pages 569-576.
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Khaled M. Yassin. (2000) Indices and sociodemographic determinants of childhood mortality in rural Upper Egypt. Social Science & Medicine 51:2, pages 185-197.
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F.N. Rasheed. (1994) Maternal infections influence infection susceptibility in childhood. Medical Hypotheses 42:2, pages 76-80.
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Ehigie Ebomoyi, Olalekan O. Adetoro & Ananda R. Wickremasinghe. (2008) Birthweight and sociobiological factors in Ilorin, Nigeria. Journal of Biosocial Science 23:4, pages 417-423.
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Mohammed Abdulaziz Al-Sekait. (2016) Maternal Influences on Birth Weight. Journal of the Royal Society of Health 109:2, pages 69-70.
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