Measuring child mortality in resource limited settings using alternative approaches: South African case study

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dc.contributor.advisorDorrington, Roben_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorBradshaw, Debbieen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorNannan, Nadineen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-24T13:57:15Z
dc.date.available2018-04-24T13:57:15Z
dc.date.issued2018en_ZA
dc.description.abstractPost the Millennium Development Goal project a significant number of countries are still faced with the challenge of monitoring child mortality. Despite numerous enquiries since 1996 to provide this basic health indicator, South Africa has experienced prolonged periods of uncertainty regarding the level and trend of infant and under-5 mortality. The thesis develops an analytical framework to review all available data sources and methods of analysis and presents the results of the four approaches adopted to measure child mortality trends. Reviewing the demographic indicators produced from seven census and survey enquiries, the overall performance and the strengths and limitations of each approach is evaluated. Poor and extremely poor quality of data for child mortality emerges as a pervasive challenge to census and survey data. The thesis presents the remarkable improvement in the completeness of birth and death registration through South Africa's CRVS system, particularly since 2000, illustrating the possibility of using CRVS data to monitor provincial child mortality in the future and highlighting statistical challenges arising from the movement of children. In conclusion, South Africa should focus on improving CRVS for purposes of monitoring childhood mortality provincially and the comprehensive evaluation of available data is a useful lesson for other upper-middle-income countries.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationNannan, N. (2018). <i>Measuring child mortality in resource limited settings using alternative approaches: South African case study</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Division of Actuarial Science. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27836en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationNannan, Nadine. <i>"Measuring child mortality in resource limited settings using alternative approaches: South African case study."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Division of Actuarial Science, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27836en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNannan, N. 2018. Measuring child mortality in resource limited settings using alternative approaches: South African case study. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Nannan, Nadine AB - Post the Millennium Development Goal project a significant number of countries are still faced with the challenge of monitoring child mortality. Despite numerous enquiries since 1996 to provide this basic health indicator, South Africa has experienced prolonged periods of uncertainty regarding the level and trend of infant and under-5 mortality. The thesis develops an analytical framework to review all available data sources and methods of analysis and presents the results of the four approaches adopted to measure child mortality trends. Reviewing the demographic indicators produced from seven census and survey enquiries, the overall performance and the strengths and limitations of each approach is evaluated. Poor and extremely poor quality of data for child mortality emerges as a pervasive challenge to census and survey data. The thesis presents the remarkable improvement in the completeness of birth and death registration through South Africa's CRVS system, particularly since 2000, illustrating the possibility of using CRVS data to monitor provincial child mortality in the future and highlighting statistical challenges arising from the movement of children. In conclusion, South Africa should focus on improving CRVS for purposes of monitoring childhood mortality provincially and the comprehensive evaluation of available data is a useful lesson for other upper-middle-income countries. DA - 2018 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2018 T1 - Measuring child mortality in resource limited settings using alternative approaches: South African case study TI - Measuring child mortality in resource limited settings using alternative approaches: South African case study UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27836 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/27836
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationNannan N. Measuring child mortality in resource limited settings using alternative approaches: South African case study. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Division of Actuarial Science, 2018 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27836en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDivision of Actuarial Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherDemographyen_ZA
dc.subject.otherActuarial Scienceen_ZA
dc.titleMeasuring child mortality in resource limited settings using alternative approaches: South African case studyen_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoral
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_ZA
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