Child and adolescence mortality rates disparity estimation

Apr 27, 2016
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I build statistical models to estimate the disparities in child and adolescence mortality rates across countries over time.

Statistical Demography
Fengqing Chao
Fengqing Chao
Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science

My research interests include statistical demography, global health, Bayesian modeling, and time series analysis.

Publications

Estimating age-specific fertility rate in the World Population Prospects: A Bayesian modelling approach
As part of its work in revising population estimates and projections for the biennial publication of the World Population Prospects …
Fengqing Chao, Vladimíra Kantorová, Giulia Gonnella, Lina Bassarsky, Lubov Zeifman, Patrick Gerland
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Sex differences in mortality among children, adolescents, and young people aged 0-24 years: a systematic assessment of national, regional, and global trends from 1990 to 2021
We systematically assessed the sex ratios of mortality rates in the early life course, from birth to age 24 years, for 200 countries …
Fengqing Chao, Bruno Masquelier, Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Yang Liu, David Sharrow, Håvard Rue, Hernando Ombao, Leontine Alkema
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Sex differences in mortality among children, adolescents, and young people aged 0-24 years: a systematic assessment of national, regional, and global trends from 1990 to 2021
Web Appendix for Sex differences in mortality among children, adolescents, and youth aged 0-24: A systematic assessment of national, regional, and global trends from 1990 to 2021
This web appendix is for Estimation and probabilistic projection of levels and trends in the sex ratio at birth in seven provinces of Nepal from 1980 to 2050: a Bayesian modeling approach.
Fengqing Chao, Bruno Masquelier, Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Yang Liu, David Sharrow, Håvard Rue, Hernando Ombao, Leontine Alkema
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Sex differences in survival chances among children, adolescents, and youth ages 0–24: A systematic assessment of national, regional, and global trends from 1990 to 2021
This is a preprint that is under peer-reviewed currently.
Fengqing Chao, Bruno Masquelier, Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Yang Liu, David Sharrow, Håvard Rue, Hernando Ombao, Leontine Alkema
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Sex differences in survival chances among children, adolescents, and youth ages 0–24: A systematic assessment of national, regional, and global trends from 1990 to 2021
“Sex Ratio of Mortality Rate Estimation Using a Bayesian Modeling Approach
The slides were presented on Aug 8th, 2021, in the 2021 Joint Statistical Meeting (virtual meeting). We introduce a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate the disparity in age-specific mortality by sex for all countries over time.
Fengqing Chao
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“Sex Ratio of Mortality Rate Estimation Using a Bayesian Modeling Approach
Estimating and Projecting Disparities in Pre- and Post-natal Survival using Bayesian Methods
It is crucial to monitor demographic and global health indicators accurately in order to optimize resource allocation. This is …
Fengqing Chao
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Estimating and Projecting Disparities in Pre- and Post-natal Survival using Bayesian Methods
A Systematic Assessment of National Under-5 Mortality Rate by Place of Residence for 109 Countries
The progress in reducing the under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) since 1990 has been remarkable but uneven within countries between urban and …
Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Lucia Hug, Jon Pedersen, Hernando Ombao, Leontine Alkema
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Explanatory Notes: Child mortality trend series to 2018
I was not directly involded in preparing the report. But one of my research papers resulted as a section (Section 5 Estimates by sex, pp 8–10) in this report by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
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Explanatory Notes: Child mortality trend series to 2018
National and regional under-5 mortality rate by economic status for low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic assessment
For all low-income and middle-income countries (excluding China) combined, the absolute disparities in under-5 mortality rate between …
Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Lucia Hug, Leontine Alkema
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National and regional under-5 mortality rate by economic status for low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic assessment
Web appendix: National and regional under-5 mortality rate by economic status for low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic assessment
This web appendix formed part of the original submission and has been peer reviewed. The journal post it as supplied by the authors. Supplement to: Chao F, You D, Pedersen J, Hug L, Alkema L.
Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Lucia Hug, Leontine Alkema
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Explanatory Notes: Child mortality trend series to 2017
I was not directly involded in preparing the report. But one of my research papers resulted as a section (Section 5 Estimates by sex, pp 8–10) in this report by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
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Explanatory Notes: Child mortality trend series to 2017
A Systematic Assessment of National, and Regional Under-Five Mortality Rate by Wealth Quintiles and Identification of Countries with Outlying Levels Using a Bayesian Hierarchical Time Series Model
National-level estimates of the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) may mask disparities at the subnational level. We developed a Bayesian …
Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Leontine Alkema
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National, regional, and global sex ratios of infant, child, and under-5 mortality and identification of countries with outlying ratios: a systematic assessment
Important differences exist between boys and girls with respect to survival up to the age of 5 years. Survival chances tend to improve …
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Cheryl C. Sawyer
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National, regional, and global sex ratios of infant, child, and under-5 mortality and identification of countries with outlying ratios: a systematic assessment
Supplementary appendix: National, regional, and global sex ratios of infant, child, and under-5 mortality and identification of countries with outlying ratios: a systematic assessment
This appendix formed part of the original submission and has been peer reviewed. The journal post it as supplied by the authors. Supplement to: Alkema L, Chao F, You D, Pedersen J, Sawyer CC.
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Danzhen You, Jon Pedersen, Cheryl C. Sawyer
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Gender Differences in Infant and Child Mortality: Estimation of Sex-Specific Mortality and an Assessment of Excess Female Deaths
Monitoring of sex-specific mortality up to age five for all countries is challenging because of issues with data availability and …
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Cheryl C. Sawyer
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Estimation method for child mortality Used in: Level and Trends of Child mortality - Report 2013
The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), which includes members from UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank …
United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME)
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Estimation method for child mortality Used in: Level and Trends of Child mortality - Report 2013
Gender differences in infant and child mortality: Estimation and identification of countries with outlying levels or trends
Under natural circumstances, the ratio of the male to female under-five mortality rate is greater than one. However, deprivation of …
Leontine Alkema, Fengqing Chao, Cheryl C. Sawyer
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