Results 21 to 30 of about 5,062,923 (350)
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 +6 more
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
Infant mortality rates: Time trends and fractional integration [PDF]
, 2011 This paper examines the time trends in infant mortality rates in a number of countries in the 20th century. Rather than imposing that the error term is a stationary I(0) process, we allow for the possibility of fractional integration and hence for a much
Caporale, GM, Gil-Alana, LA
core +5 more sources
Health Economics Review, 2020 Introduction Although health expenditure in sub-Saharan African countries is the lowest compared with other regions in the world, most African countries have improved their budget allocations to health care over the past 15 years.
G. Kiross +3 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
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
doaj +1 more source
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
openaire +2 more sources
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
openaire +2 more sources
Sofas and Infant Mortality [PDF]
Pediatrics, 2014 OBJECTIVE:Sleeping on sofas increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome and other sleep-related deaths. We sought to describe factors associated with infant deaths on sofas.METHODS:We analyzed data for infant deaths on sofas from 24 states in 2004 to 2012 in the National Center for the Review and Prevention of Child Deaths Case Reporting System ...
Lauren R, Rechtman +3 more
openaire +2 more sources
Heat, infant mortality, and adaptation: Evidence from India
, 2020 We examine the impact of extreme heat during pregnancy on infant mortality and check if public interventions can serve as effective adaptation strategies.
R. Banerjee, Riddhi Maharaj
semanticscholar +1 more source