A flexible Bayesian framework to estimate age- and cause-specific child mortality over time from sample registration data

03/01/2020
by   Austin E Schumacher, et al.
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In order to implement disease-specific interventions in young age groups, policy makers in low- and middle-income countries require timely and accurate estimates of age- and cause-specific child mortality. High quality data is not available in countries where these interventions are most needed, but there is a push to create sample registration systems that collect detailed mortality information. Current methods that estimate mortality from this data employ multistage frameworks without rigorous statistical justification that separately estimate all-cause and cause-specific mortality and are not adaptable enough to capture important features of the data. We propose a flexible Bayesian modeling framework to estimate age- and cause-specific child mortality from sample registration data. We provide a theoretical justification for the framework, explore its properties via simulation, and use it to estimate mortality trends using data from the Maternal and Child Health Surveillance System in China.

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