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Condições de vida e mortalidade infantil no Estado do Paraná, Brasil, 1997/2001
Cadernos de Saúde PúblicaCom o objetivo de verificar se as condições de vida e de infra-estrutura dos municípios do Estado do Paraná, Brasil, se relacionam com a taxa de mortalidade infantil e seus componentes, foi realizado estudo de agregados, com os 399 municípios do Estado ...
Selma Maffei de Andrade +6 more
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Dimensions and Determinants of Early Childhood Health and Mortality Among American Slaves [PDF]
This paper relies on birth and death lists from plantation records to investigate the causes of low birth weight and poor health of young slave children. The sources of deprivation can be traced to the fetal period.
Richard H. Steckel
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The Chavez Administration at 10 Years: The Economy and Social Indicators [PDF]
, 2009 This paper looks at some of the most important economic and social indicators during the 10 years of the Chavez administration in Venezuela, as well as the current economic expansion.
Luis Sandoval +2 more
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The Effect of Distance to Formal Health Facility on Childhood Mortality in Rural Tanzania, 2005-2007. [PDF]
, 2012 Major improvements are required in the coverage and quality of essential childhood interventions to achieve Millennium Development Goal Four (MDG 4). Long distance to health facilities is one of the known barriers to access. We investigated the effect of
Kadobera, Daniel +4 more
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Environmental Health, 2004 Background The impact of outdoor air pollution on infant mortality has not been quantified. Methods Based on exposure-response functions from a U.S. cohort study, we assessed the attributable risk of postneonatal infant mortality in 23 U.S.
Krzyzanowski Michal +5 more
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Cultural values and population health [PDF]
, 2014 Variations in 'culture' are often invoked to explain cross-national variations in health, but formal analyses of this relation are scarce. We studied the relation between three sets of cultural values and a wide range of health behaviours and health ...
Mackenbach, J.P. (Johan)
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Economic crisis, structural adjustment, and health in Africa [PDF]
This report applied two types of analysis to two types of data to try to quantify any short-term effect economic criswas and adjustment might have had on child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Diop, Francois +2 more
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Childhood Mortality: Trends and Determinants in Ethiopia from 1990 to 2015—A Systematic Review
Advances in Public Health, 2017 Background. Millennium Development Goal 4 calls for reducing under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. The aim of this review was to assess trend of childhood mortality and its determinants from 1990 to 2015 in Ethiopia. Methods.
Yohannes Mehretie Adinew +3 more
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Features of Case Follow-up of Extremely Preterm Infants
Zdorovʹe Rebenka, 2014 Objective. The study was conducted to analyze and improve the quality of case follow-up of children with birth weight < 1000 g and gestational age ≤ 28 weeks. Materials and Methods.
О.S. Yablon +6 more
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Child Mortality, Income and Adult Height [PDF]
We investigate the childhood determinants of adult height in populations, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. We develop a model of selection and scarring, in which the early life burden of nutrition and disease is not only ...
Angus S. Deaton +2 more
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