Socio-economic determinants of child mortality in Pakistan and the moderating role of household's wealth index

• Main Authors: Muhammad Farhan Asif (Author), Zahid Pervaiz (Author), Jawad Rahim Afridi (Author), Rida Safdar (Author), Ghulam Abid (Author), Zohra S. Lassi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Child mortality is an important social indicator that describes the health conditions of a country as well as determines the country's overall socio-economic development. The Government of Pakistan has been struggling to reduce child mortality (67.2 per thousand live births...