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International time trends in sudden unexpected infant death, 1969–2012

BMC Pediatrics, 2020
Background Sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) - including sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) - continues to be a major contributor to infant mortality worldwide. Our objective was to analyse time trends and to identify country-clusters.
Jacqueline Müller-Nordhorn, Alice Schneider, Ulrike Grittner, Konrad Neumann, Thomas Keil, Stefan N. Willich, Sylvia Binting   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of malaria control on infant mortality in Kenya [PDF]

, 2014
Since the early 2000s there has been a rapid intensification of malaria control efforts across Africa. I exploit baseline differences in the regional incidence of malaria coupled with the sharp timing of the intensified campaign to investigate the ...
Pathania, Vikram
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Maternal education and infant mortality decline: The evidence from Indonesia, 1980-2015

Demographic Research, 2021
Background: Better maternal education has been credited with making a major contribution to infant mortality decline. Most of the evidence is based on cross-sectional analyses, which show a strong correlation between maternal education and infant ...
Jona Schellekens
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Maternal educational attainment and infant mortality in the United States: Does the gradient vary by race/ethnicity and nativity?

Demographic Research, 2019
Background: Maternal education-infant health gradients are flatter among foreign-born mothers than U.S.-born mothers; However, because common metrics of infant health are less predictive of infant mortality for some racial/ethnic and nativity groups ...
Tiffany Green, Tod Hamilton
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Optimum maternal healthcare service utilization and infant mortality in Ethiopia

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021
Background Ethiopia has one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the world. Utilization of maternal healthcare during pregnancy, at delivery, and after delivery is critical to reducing the risk of infant mortality.
Girmay Tsegay Kiross, Catherine Chojenta, Daniel Barker, Deborah Loxton   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Infant mortality in South Africa - distribution, associations and policy implications, 2007: an ecological spatial analysis

International Journal of Health Geographics, 2011
Background Many sub-Saharan countries are confronted with persistently high levels of infant mortality because of the impact of a range of biological and social determinants.
Sartorius Benn KD, Sartorius Kurt, Chirwa Tobias F, Fonn Sharon   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Star cluster "infant mortality" in the Small Magellanic Cloud (Redivivus) [PDF]

, 2007
The early evolution of star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) has been the subject of significant recent controversy, particularly regarding the importance and length of the earliest, largely mass-independent disruption phase (referred to as ...
Anders, Anders, Bastian, Bastian, Baumgardt, Boily, Boily, Bolatto, Boutloukos, Calzetti, Calzetti, Calzetti, Chandar, Chiosi, Chiosi, De Grijs, De Grijs, De Grijs, De Grijs, De Grijs, Fall, Fall, Gardiner, Gieles, Goodwin, Goodwin, Goodwin, Heller, Hunter, Kurth, Lada, Lada, Lamers, Leitherer, Massey, Mengel, Pietrzyński, Plante, Rafelski, Richard De Grijs, Sabbi, Schulz, Simon P. Goodwin, Tumlinson, Vesperini, Vesperini, Weidner, Whitmore, Whitmore, Zaritsky   +49 more
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Trend and future of infant mortality in Pakistan

Journal of University Medical & Dental College, 2022
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE:  In South Asia, Pakistan is contributing to the highest childhood mortality, including infant mortality. Child mortality has been  declined globally, but Pakistan is still struggling and far behind the targets of Sustainable ...
Zartashia Shabbir, Anila Riaz , Fiaz Ahmad, Muhammad Imran shakoor   +3 more
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Contextual, maternal, and infant factors in preventable infant deaths: a statewide ecological and cross-sectional study in Rio Grande do SUL, Brazil

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Ending preventable deaths of newborns and children under five by 2030 is among the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This study aimed to describe infant mortality rate due to preventable causes in Rio Grande do Sul (RS), the ...
Ivete Maria Kreutz, Iná S. Santos
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By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo, Catherine S. Palmer, Jacqueline M. Kimmey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source