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Child mortality in the UK

The Lancet, 2014
The UK did particularly poorly in terms of the mortality estimates for children younger than 5 years, produced by the Global Burden of Diseases team (Sept 13, p 957). At 4·9 deaths per 1000 in 2013, the UK has almost the highest rate in western Europe, double that of Sweden, a country with one of the lowest mortality estimates. Furthermore, high-income
Philippa, Rees   +3 more
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Child Mortality in Jamaica

The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, 1967
This paper reports on a survey which was designed to compare the circumstances of Jamaican children who die with those of their fellows who survive. The description of the survey and its findings is prefaced by a brief discussion of the information at present available on mortality during infancy and early childhood in Jamaica.
H I, McKenzie   +3 more
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Protestantism and Child Mortality in Brazil

Journal of Religion and Health, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the association between Protestantism and child mortality for Brazil. This paper employs data from the 1991, 2000, and 2010 Brazilian censuses. The association between Protestantism and child mortality was estimated using a conventional negative binomial regression model for women between the age of 20 and 34 ...
Luan Vinicius Bernardelli   +2 more
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Vaccination and child mortality

The Lancet, 2004
A report in 2000 from Guinea Bissau suggested a worrisome association between diphtheria pertussis and tetanus (DPT) vaccination and mortality. In this issue of The Lancet Robert Breiman and colleagues respond to concerns about DPT with a highly detailed and reassuring study of vaccination and mortality in Bangladesh.
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Child Mortality, Child Labour and Economic Development [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Economic Journal, 2004
The paper presents a model where the interplay between fertility, child labour and education can explain economic stagnation when parents live in an environment of high child mortality. If in contrast child mortality is low, the solution of the parental decision problem leads to perpetual economic growth. The two long-run states are connected by a path
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Infant and child mortality in Kuwait

Journal of Biosocial Science, 1983
SummaryThis paper examines the levels, trends and Kuwaiti–non-Kuwaiti differentials in stillbirth, infant and child mortality rates during the 1957–79 period. The present infant mortality rate (33 per 1000) and its component parts are high in contrast to those in more developed countries.
K L, Kohli, M, Al-Omaim
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Mortality of the child

1990
It is impossible to find evidence that medical care raised the safety of birth for mother or child before 1935. It is impossible to find evidence which supports the claim that improvements in the education and technical efficiency of doctors or midwives, or indeed in other elements of maternity care, were responsible for the major contribution to the ...
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The ‘Vulnerable Child’: Intimations of Mortality

Pediatrics, 1980
Pediatrics has been at the forefront in its attention to populations and individuals at risk of death or disease. Much attention has been directed toward health vulnerabilities or potential precursors of disease. When preventive services, which now occupy about half of the pediatrician's time in the United States, are regularly utilized by parents who ...
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Child mortality and society in Morocco

Journal of Biosocial Science, 1987
SummaryMultivariate (correspondence) analysis is employed to identify socioeconomic factors affecting fertility and infant mortality in Marrakesh (Morocco), using questionnaire data from some 3000 women attending 20 dispensaries in different parts of the city. Factors of the material environment (availability of water and electricity in the residence),
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