Abstract

One of the Sustainable Development Goals is the reduction of infant and child mortality by two-‎thirds by year 2015. To achieve this goal, efforts need be intensive at identifying cost-effective ‎strategies as many international agencies have advocated for more resources to be directed to health ‎sector. One way of doing this is to identify the important factors that associated child mortality. This ‎study is necessary because, under-Five mortality is one of the most important sensitive indicators of ‎the social economic and health status of a community. This is because more than any other age group ‎of a population, infants and children survival depends on the socioeconomic condition of their ‎environment. This study addresses factors associating under-Five mortality in Sudan. The main ‎objective of the paper is to determine the most of socioeconomic, maternal and environment variables ‎associated with under-Five mortality. The data for this study were collected by a questionnaire ‎addressed to women in Gezira state, Sudan (2021). Four hundred women in the reproductive age (15-‎‎49) years were chosen randomly for this study. The data were analyzed statistically using the ‎Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). A statistical test based on Chi-square for ‎independence was conducted and the relative risk of the socioeconomic, maternal and environment ‎were computed. The postnatal care of mother, child completion specified immunization, child cease ‎to breast-feed and child-suffered dehydration have the greatest relative risk on under-five mortality. ‎The study recommends policy makers and programmer managers in the child health sector to ‎formulate appropriate strategies to improve the situation, of children less than five years in Sudan, by ‎creating awareness on socioeconomic, maternal and environment factors and improving on them.‎

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