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How can we make international comparisons of infant mortality in high income countries based on aggregate data more relevant to policy? [PDF]

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2017
Background Infant mortality rates are commonly used to compare the health of populations. Observed differences are often attributed to variation in child health care quality.
Ania Zylbersztejn, Ruth Gilbert, Anders Hjern, Pia Hardelid   +3 more
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Association of Maternal Body Mass Index With Risk of Infant Mortality: A Dose-Response Meta-Analysis

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2021
Objective: This study presumed that a high or low body mass index (BMI) might increase the risk of infant mortality. Therefore, a meta-analysis was performed to systematically assess the association between maternal BMI and the risk of infant mortality ...
Nana Huo, Kun Zhang, Li Wang, Lina Wang, Wenhui Lv, Wenke Cheng, GuangZhu Jia   +6 more
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Seasonality of Infant Mortality in Barnaul in the Second Half of the 19th — Early 20th Centuries (with Reference to Parish Books)

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2020
This article analyses the seasonal peculiarities of infant mortality and identifies periods of children’s increased vulnerability to adverse factors during the year.
Dmitry Evgenievich Sarafanov
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Residential inequality and spatial patterns of infant mortality in Ethiopia: evidence from Ethiopian Demographic and Health Surveys

Tropical Medicine and Health, 2021
Background Despite the remarkable decrease in infant mortality rate in most countries, the rate of decline is slow and it remains unacceptably high in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema, Achamyeleh Birhanu Teshale   +1 more
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Levels, trends and socio-demographic determinants of infant and under-five mortalities in and around slum areas of Dhaka city, Bangladesh

SSM: Population Health, 2022
Infant and child mortality are often used to monitor the progress of national population health programs. The data for this study was collected from selected urban slums where icddr,b has maintained the Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS ...
Abdur Razzaque, Razib Chowdhury, AHM Golam Mustafa, Farzana Begum, Sohana Shafique, Alexander Lawton, Mohammad Zahirul Islam   +6 more
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A Critical Review on the Complex Interplay between Social Determinants of Health and Maternal and Infant Mortality

Children, 2022
Background: U.S. maternal and infant mortality rates constitute an important public health problem, because these rates surpass those in developed countries and are characterized by stark disparities for racial/ethnic minorities, rural residents, and ...
Rada K. Dagher, Deborah E. Linares
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Regional disparities in infant mortality in Canada: a reversal of egalitarian trends

BMC Public Health, 2009
Background Although national health insurance plans and social programs introduced in the 1960s led to reductions in regional disparities in infant mortality in Canada, it is unclear if such patterns prevailed in the 1990s when the health care and ...
Dzakpasu Susie, Huang Ling, Joseph K S, McCourt Catherine   +3 more
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Multilevel log linear model to estimate the risk factors associated with infant mortality in Ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 EDHS

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022
Background Infant mortality is defined as the death of a child at any time after birth and before the child’s first birthday. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest infant and child mortality rate in the world.
Solomon Sisay Mulugeta, Mitiku Wale Muluneh, Alebachew Taye Belay, Yikeber Abebaw Moyehodie, Setegn Bayabil Agegn, Bezanesh Melese Masresha, Selamawit Getachew Wassihun   +6 more
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Infant Mortality and Race in Kansas

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2016
Background: Racial and ethnic minority infants and mothers have worse birth outcomes than Caucasian infants and mothers, specifically infant mortality.
Nikki Keene Woods, Jared Reyes, Amy Chesser   +2 more
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Evaluation of infant deaths during Covid-19 pandemic in Adıyaman, a southeastern province of Turkey

Adıyaman Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi, 2023
Aim: Evaluation of infant deaths during the Covid-19 Pandemic period in Adıyaman, a southeastern province of Turkey.Materials and Methods: All infant mortality files submitted to Adıyaman Provincial Health Directorate Infant Mortality Investigation ...
Erdoğan Öz, Osman Küçükkelepçe, Habip Almış, Mehmet Emin Parlak, Osman Kurt   +4 more
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