Prevalence and Determinants of the Gender Differentials Risk Factors of Child Deaths in Bangladesh: Evidence from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2011

Md. Mosharaf Hossain; Kulanthayan K. C. Mani; Md. Rafiqul Islam

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003616

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Prevalence and Determinants of the Gender Differentials Risk Factors of Child Deaths in Bangladesh: Evidence from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2011

Md. Mosharaf Hossain ,

* E-mail: m_population@yahoo.com (MMH); kulan@upm.edu.my (KKCM)

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Kulanthayan K. C. Mani ,

* E-mail: m_population@yahoo.com (MMH); kulan@upm.edu.my (KKCM)

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Md. Rafiqul Islam

Affiliation Department of Population Science & HRD, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
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Prevalence and Determinants of the Gender Differentials Risk Factors of Child Deaths in Bangladesh: Evidence from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, 2011

Md. Mosharaf Hossain,
Kulanthayan K. C. Mani,
Md. Rafiqul Islam

Published: March 6, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003616

About the Authors

Md. Mosharaf Hossain

* E-mail: m_population@yahoo.com (MMH); kulan@upm.edu.my (KKCM)

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Kulanthayan K. C. Mani

* E-mail: m_population@yahoo.com (MMH); kulan@upm.edu.my (KKCM)

Affiliation Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Md. Rafiqul Islam

Affiliation Department of Population Science & HRD, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MMH. Performed the experiments: MMH. Analyzed the data: MMH MRI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMH. Wrote the paper: MMH KKCM MRI.

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