Indigenous populations experience higher rates of poverty, disease and mortality than non-indigenous populations. To gauge current and future risks among Tsimane Amerindians of Bolivia, I assess mortality rates and growth early in life, and changes in risks due to modernization, based on demographic interviews conducted Sept. 2002-July 2005. Tsimane have high fertility (total fertility rate = 9...

Hypothermia among newborns is considered an important contributor to neonatal morbidity and mortality in low-resource settings. However, in these settings only limited progress has been made towards understanding the risk of mortality after hypothermia, describing how this relationship is dependent on both the degree or severity of exposure and the gestational age and weight status of the baby,...

Levels and causes of mortality in mothers and babies are intrinsically linked, occurring at the same time and often to the same mother-baby dyad, although mortality rates are substantially higher in babies. Measuring levels, trends and causes of maternal, neonatal and foetal mortality are important for understanding priority areas for interventions and tracking the success of interventions at t...

EPIDEMIOLOGY Globally, 3.7 million children died within the neonatal period in 2004 with 25-45% of deaths occurring within the first day after in 2004.2 Over 50% of the world's infant mortality occurs in the developing and tropical countries and is related to the prevalent high neonatal mortality rate.1 A similar trend was observed in maternal mortality in the sub-Saharan region with mortality ...

This paper examines the relationship between health aid and infant mortality, using data from 118 countries between 1973 and 2004. Health aid has a statistically significant effect on infant mortality: doubling per capita health aid is associated with a 2 percent reduction in the infant mortality rate. For the average country, this implies that increasing per capita health aid by US$1.60 per ye...

OBJECTIVE Ethnic disparities in infant mortality have been consistently documented in the United States, but these disparities are poorly understood. Although the infant mortality rate in the United States has fallen to record low rates, since 1971 the ethnic disparity between black and white infants has remained unchanged or increased. In 2001, the infant mortality rate among black infants was...

Neonatal death is usually understood to mean the death of a child in the first month after birth, infant death being death within the first year. The neonatal death rate is the number of neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births. The still birth rate is the number of babies of over 7 months' pregnancy who are born dead per 1,000 total births. That the subject of neonatal death and still birth is an...

nfant mortality rate is defined as the death of an infant before his or her first birthday. eful indicator on the nation’s health because it is often associated with other health uch as maternal health, quality and accessibility of medical care, and socioeconomic ns. The leading causes of infant mortality are dehydration, disease, congenital ation, infection, drugs and alcohol, sudden infant de...

BACKGROUND Rates of infant mortality declined in Canada in the 1990s and 2000s, but the extent to which all socio-economic levels benefitted from this progress is unknown. OBJECTIVES This study investigated differences and time trends in neonatal, postneonatal and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) mortality across neighbourhood income quintiles among live births in Canada from 1991 through ...