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• TITLE: An Assessment of Association between Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Infant Mortality in High Focus States in India

  AUTHORS: Ashish Kumar Gupta, Laishram Ladusingh

  KEYWORDS: Neighborhood Effect, High Focus States, Infant Mortality Rate, Multilevel Analysis

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.8 No.7, May 11, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Neighbourhood characteristics influence infant mortality above and beyond individual/household factors. In India, there are very few studies discussing the effects of neighbourhood characteristics on infant mortality. This study examined the effect of neighbourhood socioeconomic characteristics on infant mortality using data from the India’s Third District Level Household Survey conducted in 2007-2008. Multilevel analyses applied on the representative sample of 168,625 nested within 14,193 communities using MCMC procedure. Results established that place of residence, neighbourhood socio-economic factors as important determinants of infant mortality. Overall, being born in affluent (OR: 0.79, p