Parental tobacco use and child death: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys from South and South East Asian countries | Zendy

Dharma Nand Bhatta | Zendy; Stanton A. Glantz | Zendy

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Parental tobacco use and child death: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys from South and South East Asian countries

Author(s) -

Dharma Nand Bhatta,

Stanton A. Glantz

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyy209

Subject(s) - smokeless tobacco , medicine , public health , odds ratio , environmental health , demography , confidence interval , child mortality , tobacco smoke , logistic regression , developing country , tobacco use , population , nursing , pathology , sociology , economics , economic growth

Child mortality is a public health challenge in developing countries, and exposure to second-hand smoke and prenatal exposure to smokeless tobacco are risk factors for child death. We determined the associations between parental tobacco use and child death under the age of five in eight South and South East Asian countries.

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