Under-5 mortality in Tanzania: a demographic scenario.

Abstract

The government of the United Republic of Tanzania has initiated the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness program to improve the health and wellbeing of children.Tanzania's under-five mortality rate is still 1.7 times higher than the world average and, in order to achieve its Millennium Development Goal 4 target, its annual reduction rate is quite low at 2.2. The main aim of the study is to examine under-five mortality combined with the Data from the Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2008 data was used. Odds ratios for infant and under-five mortality were estimated using logistic regression; crude and adjusting models were adopted.Mortality cases (18.3%) have been reported to children born with an interval of

Keywords

• Birth interval
• Child mortality
• Infant mortality
• Mortality rate
• Under-5 mortality