Health systems, policies and infant mortality in developing countries

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  • David Baguma
  • Jamal Hisham Hashim
  • Syed Mohamed Aljunid
چکیده

Methods The secondary data on infant mortality was obtained on countries in Eastern Africa, Western Europe and Southern Asian countries between 1950 and 2010 expressed as deaths per 1,000 births. Countries in Western Europe were used for comparison purposes. The data also included inpatients (admissions and deaths in 2007) of water-related diseases such as malaria and diarrhoea, in Eastern Africa (i.e., Uganda). Nonlinear regression modelling was utilized in the empirical analysis.

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دوره 12  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012