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Association Between Household Air Pollution And Child Mortality In Myanmar Using A Multilevel Mixed-Effects Poisson Regression With Robust Variance, Juwel Rana, Rakibul M. Islam, Md Nuruzzaman Khan, Razia Aliani, Youssef Oulhote
Association Between Household Air Pollution And Child Mortality In Myanmar Using A Multilevel Mixed-Effects Poisson Regression With Robust Variance, Juwel Rana, Rakibul M. Islam, Md Nuruzzaman Khan, Razia Aliani, Youssef Oulhote
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Faculty Publications Series
Household air pollution (HAP) from solid fuel use (SFU) for cooking is a major public health threat for women and children in low and middle-income countries. This study investigated the associations between HAP and neonatal, infant, and under-five child mortality in Myanmar. The study consisted of 3249 sample of under-five children in the households from the first Myanmar Demographic and Health Survey 2016. Fuel types and levels of exposure to SFU (no, moderate and high) were proxies for HAP. We estimated covariate-adjusted relative risks (aRR) of neonatal, infant, and under-five child mortality with 95% confidence intervals, accounting for the survey …