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Infant Mortality Attributable to Birth Defects — United States, 2003–2017
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020 Birth defects are a leading cause of infant mortality in the United States, accounting for 20.6% of infant deaths in 2017 (1). Rates of infant mortality attributable to birth defects (IMBD) have generally declined since the 1970s (1-3). U.S. linked birth/
L. Almli +7 more
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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 +1 more
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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 +6 more
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Infant Mortality in Rural and Nonrural Counties in the United States
Pediatrics, 2020 Using national linked birth and infant death records, we find county-level socioeconomic disadvantage, and not health care, best explains higher infant mortality rates in rural counties.
Deborah B. Ehrenthal, H. Kuo, R. Kirby
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Infant Mortality in Austria [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 1962 The exceptionally high mortality in the first year of life has long stimulated research into its causes, the level of the infant mortality rate having been regarded as an indicator of the social and economic well-being of a nation. The dramatic decline in mortality experienced by western countries in the last century has been most pronounced for ...
H, CZERMAK, H, HANSLUWKA
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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 +3 more
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INFANT MORTALITY IN DETROIT [PDF]
American Journal of Public Health, 1921 One-fourth of all deaths are among children of less than one year. Babies succumb in large part to causes acting before birth. To prevent such deaths, increasing attention must be paid to prenatal work. Lowest mortality is found among Russian Jews and Italians.
G T, Palmer, G A, Blakeslee
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Infant Mortality in Belfast [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1971 Data on all livebirths and infant deaths occurring to residents in Belfast 1963-5 and in Birmingham 1964 were analysed in order to examine possible reasons why the infant mortality rate in Belfast (29·4 per 1000 livebirths) was higher than in Birmingham (21·4).
J H, Elwood, J, Pemberton
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The invention of infant mortality. [PDF]
Sociology of Health and Illness, 1986 Abstract This paper traces the initial emergence of infant mortality as a socio‐medical problem and the development of its various forms ‐ from atrophy and debility to ‘sudden infant death’‐ in Britain during the 20th century. From the Registrar‐General's annual reports various analytic frameworks which were used in the investigation of infant ...
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Influenza and Infant Mortality [PDF]
BMJ, 1972 Early neonatal mortality in England and Wales in the second quarter of 1970 after a major influenza epidemic was slightly but significantly higher than in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. An increase was also noted in the first quarter of 1970.
G W, Griffith +3 more
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