Advances in Public Health

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Survival Analysis of Birth Defect Infants and Children with Pneumonia Mortality in Ghana

Table 2

Parameter estimates from the Cox proportional hazard regression model for infants and children (n = 295).


Variable	Infant death		Child death
Variable	Unadjusted HR (95% CI)	Adjusted (95% CI)	Unadjusted HR (95% CI)	Adjusted HR (95% CI)

Birth defect (1 versus 0)	0.47 (0.156, 0.781)	0.44 (0.114, 0.772)	-	-
Preterm birth (1 versus 0)	0.49 (0.174, 0.805)	0.43 (0.105, 0.749)	0.59 (0.276, 0.905)	0.46 (0.130, 0.785)
Accidents (1 versus 0)	0.32 (0.013, 0.633)	0.42 (0.098, 0.738)	0.41 (0.104, 0.723)	0.41 (0.102, 0.727)
Pregnancy complications (1 versus 0)	0.60 (0.277, 0.916)	0.57 (0.246, 0.892)	-	-
NHIS (1 versus 0)	0.09 (−0.221, 0.398)	0.07 (−0.247, 0.394)	0.03 (−0.275, 0.338)	0.09 (−0.223 0.409)
Residence (1 versus 0)	−0.07 (−0.376, 0.244)	−0.023 (−0.348, 0.294)	0.11 (−0.192, 0.421)	0.12 (−0.190, 0.438)
Gender (1 versus 0)	−0.24 (−0.549, 0.077)	−0.21 (−0.537, 0.111)	0.06 (−0.245, 0.369)	0.002 (−0.310, 0.3146)
Pneumonia (1 versus 0)	-	-	0.65 (0.344, 0.963)	0.60 (0.282, 0.918)
Diarrhoea (1 versus 0)	-	-	0. 59 (0.280 0.904)	0.57 (0.251, 0.886)
Age (1 versus 0)	0.005 (−0.049, 0.059)	0.04 (−0.014 0.097)	−0.03 (−0.189, 0.124)	−0.03 (−0.184, 0.133)

: hazard ratio and CI: confidence interval.