Prevalence and determinants of childhood mortality in Nigeria

The study revealed factors associated with childhood mortality: age, region, residence, education, wealth index, age at first birth and religion of father and mother. Mothers living in rural areas experience a 28% increase in childhood mortality. Tackling the death of children, whether during perinatal, early or late neonatal, childhood or adolescent age is posing a difficult task in Nigeria. The study points to the correlation between improved health education campaigns and improvements in access to primary health care as directly effective in increasing life expectancy and economic wellbeing