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International Journal of MCH and AIDS, 2019 Objectives: We examined trends in racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities in age- and cause-specific infant mortality in the United States during 1915-2017.
Gopal K Singh, Stella M. Yu
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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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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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PLoS ONE, 2019 Introduction Some studies in developing countries have shown that infant mortality is highly associated with maternal education, implying that maternal education might play an important role in the reduction of infant mortality.
G. Kiross +4 more
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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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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 +3 more
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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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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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Primary care physicians and infant mortality: Evidence from Brazil
PLoS ONE, 2019 Primary health care has been recognized as a critical strategy for improving population health in developing countries. This paper investigates the effect of primary care physicians on the infant mortality rate in Brazil using a dynamic panel data ...
L. X. Russo +3 more
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