Housing Correlates of Infant and Childhood Mortality in Urban Ethiopia

The impact of housing conditions on under-five mortality will be examined in four major capital cities of the Regional States of Ethiopia.
There had been many studies on the influence of background and demographic variables on infant and childhood mortality, but, little studies and analysis have been done to investigate the housing determinants of infant and childhood mortality, despite the fact that Ethiopia has collected abundant empirical housing data from the previous censuses and DHS studies. Accordingly, the author is motivated to know how housing components determine the quality of urban life through the health status of under- five years of children.
The rationale and objectives of this study are to explore the influence of housing variables on under-five mortality rates and suggest recommendations for awareness to the urban health planners before the end of 2015 worldwide MDG.
With respect to methodology, use of frequency distributions of univariate and bivariate tables, indirect techniques of mortality estimations(ratios of observed and expected patterns, applying appropriate model life tables across various housing characteristics) and also application of multivariate and logistic regression analysis, where under-five mortality as dependent variable and housing characteristics as covariate.