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  Tropical Medicine & International HealthVolume 10 Issue 8, Pages 782 - 789 Published Online: 21 Jul 2005 © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 78K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Effects of vitamin A supplementation on child mortality: evidence from Nepal's 2001 Demographic and Health Survey Copyright 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd KEYWORDS vitamin A • child mortality • Nepal Summary
Objective To assess the effect of Nepal's vitamin A supplementation programme on child mortality at age 12–59 months. Materials and methods Logistic regression, applied to retrospective data from Nepal's 2001 Demographic and Health Survey. Results After a number of potentially confounding variables are controlled, the effect of 100% community-level vitamin A coverage since the child's birth, relative to no coverage, is to reduce the odds of dying at age 12–59 months by slightly more than half (OR = 0.47, P = 0.03). Conclusions The estimated beneficial effect of vitamin A supplementation on child mortality is larger than that found in most earlier clinical studies. This larger effect may be due mainly to the other health-related activities undertaken by the female community health volunteers who distribute vitamin A capsules. | 
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