Surface Water Quality and Infant Mortality in China

Infant mortality and life expectancy in China

BACKGROUND It is reported that the infant mortality (IM) rate decreased rapidly in China and the life expectancy (LE) also had a high increase. Our objective was to determine the health status of the Chinese population by investigating IM and LE and their inter-relationship. MATERIAL AND METHODS Based on a literature review on the history and current status of IM and LE in China and other maj...

Infant Mortality and Obstetric Assistance's Quality.

A worldwide acknowledged way of evaluating the life conditions of a population, in particular or in general, is to use health indicators that may be represented as rates or ratios. Such indexes are essential for the quality of the planning of programs and services, interfering directly in their efficiency. Furthermore, those indicators reflect substantially the quality of the assistance provide...

ESTIMATING INFANT AND CHILD MORTALITY IN IRAN, 1989

This paper presents estimates of infant and child mortality in the rural and urban areas of Iran for 1989. Data are from a one percent sample of the urban and rural population. The study makes use of data on the number of children born alive and children surviving, classified by age of the mother. Based on these data estimates of infant and child mortality for the urban and the rural areas...

Sex Differential Infant Mortality in China and its Spatial Variation

Evaluation of Gorganrood river water quality based on surface water quality indicators in Gonbad Kavous

Background and Objective: Increased untreated wastewater and unsustainable development of agriculture has deteriorated water quality of rivers. The aim of this study was to determine the quality of water in Gorganrud River basin using NSFWQI IRWQISC and Liou Pollution Index and compare them with the global standards. To do this, GIS software.was used Materials and Methods: In this study, 5 sam...