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Upswing in Industrial Activity and Infant Mortality during Late 19th Century US [PDF]
Journal of Environments, 6(1), 1-13 (2020), 2021 This paper aims to assess the effects of industrial pollution on infant mortality between the years 1850-1940 using full count decennial censuses. In this period, US economy experienced a tremendous rise in industrial activity with significant variation among different counties in absorbing manufacturing industries.
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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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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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Beyond Barker: Infant Mortality at Birth and Ischaemic Heart Disease in Older Age [PDF]
, 2022 Adverse conditions in early life can have consequential impacts on individuals' health in older age. In one of the first papers on this topic, Barker and Osmond 1986 show a strong positive relationship between infant mortality rates in the 1920s and ischaemic heart disease in the 1970s.
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Industrialization and Infant Mortality [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 On average, infant mortality rates are lower in more industrialized nations, yet health and mortality worsened during early industrialization in some nations. This study examines the effects of growing manufacturing employment on infant mortality across 274 Indonesian districts from 1985 to 1995, a time of rapid industrialization.
Federman, Maya, Levine, David I.
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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 +2 more
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What can we learn from functional clustering of mortality data? An application to HMD data [PDF]
European Journal of Population 37 (2021) 769-798, 2020 In most cases, mortality is analysed considering summary indicators (e.~g. $e_0$ or $e^{\dagger}_0$) that either focus on a specific mortality component or pool all component-specific information in one measure. This can be a limitation, when we are interested to analyse the global evolution of mortality patterns without loosing sight of specific ...
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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 +6 more
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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 +6 more
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