Infant mortality rate as an indicator of population health

Infant mortality rate as an indicator of population health.

BACKGROUND The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the population to the exclusion of the rest. More comprehensive measures such as disability adjusted life expectancy (DALE) have come into favour as alternatives. These more comprehensive measures of p...

An equity motivated indicator of population health

Are infant mortality rate declines exponential? The general pattern of 20th century infant mortality rate decline

BACKGROUND Time trends in infant mortality for the 20th century show a curvilinear pattern that most demographers have assumed to be approximately exponential. Virtually all cross-country comparisons and time series analyses of infant mortality have studied the logarithm of infant mortality to account for the curvilinear time trend. However, there is no evidence that the log transform is the be...

Correlation of Demographic Factors of Mother and Child With Infant Mortality Rate

ABSTRACT I.M.R is one of the most important Indexes in health system that used for in assessment of health service and appllicated determine of developing society. If we'll diagnose the case of mortality in developing countries we can dissolve this problem with simple Actions. this study was carried out for determine of correlation between demographic factors of mother and child and I.M.R in v...

Infant mortality is not an adequate summary measure of population health.

(WHO) annually reports infant mortality rates (IMR), child mortality rates, adult mortality rates, average life expectancies, and healthy life expectan-cies for all 191 member states. 1 2 IMR correlates highly with HALE across these 191 member states in 2000 (r=0.93). Reidpath and Allotey argue that IMR is an acceptable proxy measure of population health because of this high correlation. 3 Insp...