Women’s empowerment and infant mortality in Latin America: evidence from 286 cities

Epilepsy and mortality in Latin America

PURPOSE To assess the mortality related to epilepsy in Latin America. METHODS We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, and LILACS from inception to December 2013 for articles evaluating mortality in patients with epilepsy in Latin America. Studies were included if they evaluated any mortality outcome, included a population of subjects with recurrent seizures or epilepsy, and contained original data analy...

Evidence for Latin America

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on the differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage skill differentials and public social ...

The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition

The Declines in Infant Mortality and Fertility: Evidence from British Cities in Demographic Transition At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was roughly halfway through a 60-year demographic transition with declining infant mortality and birth rates. Cities exhibited great and strongly correlated diversity in these rates. We demonstrate cross-section correlations with, for instance,...

Are We Contributing to Empowerment in Latin America?

Macro Determinants of Infant Mortality in ECO Countries: Evidence from Panel Data Analysis

Background Infant mortality rate is widely used to assessing the health status of population in both developing and developed countries. The aim of this study was to identify the main factors affect infant mortality rate in ECO countries for the years 2005 to 2012. Methods A panel data model from ECO countries from 2005 to 2012 used to identify the some of key explanatory variables (GDP per cap...