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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

A Systematic Assessment of National, Regional and Global Levels and Trends in the Sex Ratio at Birth and Identification of Countries With Outlying Levels

We implemented Bayesian methods for probabilistic sex ratio at birth (SRB) estimation and projection for all countries based on an …

Fengqing Chao, Patrick Gerland, Alex R. Cook, Leontine Alkema

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

A Systematic Assessment of National, Regional and Global Levels and Trends in the Sex Ratio at Birth and Identification of Countries with Outlying Levels

Under normal circumstances, the sex ratio at birth (SRB) has been reported to vary between 1.04 and 1.07. But gender discrimination and …

Fengqing Chao, Leontine Alkema, Patrick Gerland

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