Determinants of under-five mortality in Khartoum state

Abstract EN

This paper aims to study the determinants of under-five mortality in Khartoum state the capital state of Sudan.

primary data on variables of relevance to under-five mortality was collected from a random sample of households in khartoum state in 2018, and analyzed by using binary logistic regression technique where dying or not dying before reaching age 5 constituted the dependent variable.

the resulting model revealed that the strongest predictors of under-five mortality are age of mother , age at the first childbearing, numbers of medical checkup, duration of pregnancy less than 32 weeks, average of breastfeeding, and mother suffers from diabetes.

under-five mortality in khartoum state can thus be reduced quite considerably by positively addressing these determinants via orchestrated policy.