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    Cherish your children: socio-economic and demographic characteristics associated with child mortality
    (BioMed Central, 2021-12) Jayathilaka, R; Adikari, H; Liyanage, R; Udalagama, R; Wanigarathna, N
    Background: The United Nations Interagency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME) indicates that child mortality is the death rate of children between age zero to five. The importance of this area of research is high where worldwide a number of studies have been led on infant and child mortality, despite limited research discoveries with regards to Sri Lanka. The aim of this study is to investigate the socio-economic and demographic characteristics associated with child mortality in Sri Lanka. Methods: Using the context of Sri Lanka as a case study, this study carried out based on data gathered from the micro level national survey. Using the logit regression model through the step-wise technique, the study investigate the socio-economic and demographic characteristics associated with child mortality in Sri Lanka. Results: According to the generated results, place of residence province-wise, household head’s education level and source of drinking water have negative effect (lower risk) on child mortality in Sri Lanka. Exceptionally, the Western province has the highest negative effect on child mortality which demonstrates it as the least harmful region in Sri Lanka in child endurance. Household heads who owns private entities and Sri Lankan Moors has a positive effect on child mortality as well. Conclusion: This study is helpful to address the population health of local arena and results can be supportive to the government and policymakers to gain an overview of physical health status of the country and able to uplift their policies based on the new findings
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    Cherish your children: socio-economic and demographic characteristics associated with child mortality
    (Springer Nature, 2021-06-24) Jayathilaka, R; Adikari, H; Liyanage, R; Udalagama, R; Wanigarathna, N
    Background: The United Nations Interagency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME) indicates that child mortality is the death rate of children between age zero to five. The importance of this area of research is high where worldwide a number of studies have been led on infant and child mortality, despite limited research discoveries with regards to Sri Lanka. The aim of this study is to investigate the socio-economic and demographic characteristics associated with child mortality in Sri Lanka. Methods: Using the context of Sri Lanka as a case study, this study carried out based on data gathered from the micro level national survey. Using the logit regression model through the step-wise technique, the study investigate the socio-economic and demographic characteristics associated with child mortality in Sri Lanka. Results: According to the generated results, place of residence province-wise, household head’s education level and source of drinking water have negative effect (lower risk) on child mortality in Sri Lanka. Exceptionally, the Western province has the highest negative effect on child mortality which demonstrates it as the least harmful region in Sri Lanka in child endurance. Household heads who owns private entities and Sri Lankan Moors has a positive effect on child mortality as well. Conclusion: This study is helpful to address the population health of local arena and results can be supportive to the government and policymakers to gain an overview of physical health status of the country and able to uplift their policies based on the new findings.
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    FADING BEFORE THEY BLOOM’: CHILD MORTALITY IN SRI LANKA IN HOUSEHOLDERS
    (Sri Lanka Forum of University Economists,Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, 2021-01-21) Liyanage, R; Adikari, H; Wanigarathna, N; Udalagama, R; Jayathilaka, R
    The future human capital of any country is “children”. Hence, every child in this world has a right to have a good quality life. Children are a valuable investment in a country. In 1990, 12.6 million child deaths have taken place but in 2016, it drops to 5.6 million. Basically, universal child mortality rate has declined by over half between 1990 and 2016 (Rodriguez 2016). This progress in child survival indicates the development of global health. However, at present, globally approximately 15,000 under five-year old deaths occur per day and 5.3 million annually. Majority occur in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Moreover, the Department of Census and Statistics (2016) highlighted that infant mortality or early childhood mortality is a measure of socioeconomic development of a country; also, it’s a good measure of the quality of life. Many rigorous studies on child mortality regarding household income and expenditure, household wealth and also socioeconomic determinants of child mortality have been conducted especially in the developing countries in Asian and African regions (Nyamuranga and Shin 2019), but limited scale in Sri Lanka