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Infant mortality by color or race from Rondônia, Brazilian Amazon
Revista de Saúde PúblicaOBJECTIVE To analyze the quality of records for live births and infant deaths and to estimate the infant mortality rate for skin color or race, in order to explore possible racial inequalities in health.
Caroline Gava +2 more
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The Poor at Birth: Infant Auxology and Mortality at Philadelphia's Almshouse Hospital, 1848-1873 [PDF]
This paper presents an analysis of birth weights and infant mortality in mid-nineteenth century Philadelphia using obstetrics records of Philadelphia's Almshouse hospital, an institution for the poor and their offspring.
Claudia D. Goldin, Robert A. Margo
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BMJ Open, 2015 Objectives To identify common factors associated with post-neonatal, infant, child and under-5 mortality in Nigeria. Design, setting and participants A cross-sectional data of three Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys (NDHS) for the years 2003, 2008 ...
O. K. Ezeh +4 more
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International Ranking of Infant Mortality Rates: Taiwan Compared with European Countries
Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2016 Rankings of infant mortality rates are commonly cited international comparisons to assess the health status of individual countries. We compared the infant mortality rate of Taiwan with those of European countries for 2004 according to two definitions ...
Fu-Wen Liang +6 more
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What do we know about adult mortality and data quality in Peru? Mortality coverage levels and trends from recent decades [PDF]
Accurate knowledge of adult mortality levels and trends in the developing world is hampered by its widespread lack of complete vital registration systems.
Bernardo L. Queiroz, Mario Piscoya
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A review of life expectancy and infant mortality estimations for Australian Aboriginal people
BMC Public Health, 2014 BackgroundSignificant variation exists in published Aboriginal mortality and life expectancy (LE) estimates due to differing and evolving methodologies required to correct for inadequate recording of Aboriginality in death data, under-counting of ...
Bronwen Phillips +3 more
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Neonatal mortality at Hospital Geral do Grajaú [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo), 2003 OBJECTIVES: To analyze the characteristics of neonatal deaths atHospital Geral Grajaú, in 2002, and assess the influence of perinatalfactors in mortality.
José Ricardo Dias Bertagnon +3 more
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EClinicalMedicine, 2019 Background: This study examines associations between sex composition of older siblings and infant mortality by sex, to guide efforts to address excess female infant mortality in India. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study of infant
Anita Raj +8 more
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Working Paper 91 - Health Expenditures and Health Outcomes in Africa [PDF]
This paper provides econometric evidence linking African countries’ per capita total as well as government health expenditures and per capita income to two health outcomes: infant mortality and under-five mortality.
Andrew E. O. Erhijakpor, John Anyanwu
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Determinants of infant and child mortality in Zimbabwe: Results of multivariate hazard analysis
Demographic Research, 2009 This study addresses important issues in infant and child mortality in Zimbabwe. The objective of the paper is to determine the impact of maternal, socioeconomic and sanitation variables on infant and child mortality. Results show that births of order 6+
Joshua Kembo, Jeroen K. van Ginneken
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