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Studies suggest that short maternal stature, very young age, high parity, close birth spacing were all associated factors [ 4, 5].
As the first pillar of safe motherhood and an essential component of primary health care, contraceptive plays a key role in reducing maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality by preventing unintended pregnancy and close birth intervals [ 4].
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The study witnessed the deleterious effect of too many and too close births on zinc status.
Besides, practices such as plural marriage, having higher-order births and too close births showed statistical significance for increased risks of under-five mortality (p < 0.05).
As long as cultures favourable to high fertility and too close births are sustained among some ethnic groups as observed in some sections of the country, regional inequality in under-five mortality will continue to persist in Nigeria.
As earlier reported (Wall 1998), our results showed that Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri tribes were mostly practising cultural practices such as early motherhood (many had first birth earlier than 18 years), too many births (high parity) and too close births (high proportion of the children had preceding birth interval of less than 24 months; Table 3).
Our study established that the regional inequalities in under-five mortality in Nigeria are mostly driven by the childhood mortality levels among Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri – the tribes that still mostly practise the culture of early motherhood, high fertility, too close births and worse still are mostly uneducated.
Findings of this study suggest that while the practices that are inimical to child health and survival (such as early childbearing, having too close births and poor health seeking) are becoming less fashionable among the Yoruba tribe, the Hausa/Fulani/Kanuri tribes appear to hold tenaciously to these cultural practices.
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Social media sites have helped bypass a system that has made it difficult for adoptees and birth parents to connect: state laws that closed birth records to protect the identities of birth mothers.
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