OBJECTIVE To assess health status determinants in Brazil's Northeast states. METHODS Study carried out based on panel data analysis of aggregated information for municipalities. Data was obtained from the United Nations Development Program Atlas of Human Development and Brazilian National Treasury Department for the years 1991 and 2000. Health status indicator was infant mortality rate and he...

Table 1 illustrates the change in infant mortality rates, according to WHO statistics. Across a wide geographic and economic range, many countries have made substantial progress, partly due to improvements in sanitation and control of infectious diseases but also due to an improved nutritional situation. Even within a country with a comparatively low infant mortality rate in 1960 like Sweden, t...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether the magnitude of improvement in the health status of a population over time is dependent on the previous health status of that population. DESIGN AND SETTING A study of infant mortality rates in Canada's 12 provinces and territories between the periods 1961-1965 and 1991-1995, and of infant mortality rates in 133 countries between 1960 and 1995. MAIN OUTCOME MEA...

Previous work shows that higher levels of education quality (as measured by international student achievement tests) increases growth rates of national income. This paper begins by confirming those findings in an analysis involving more countries over more time with additional controls. We then use the panel structure of our data to assess whether the mechanism by which education quality appear...

Vast records of our everyday interests and concerns are being generated by our frequent interactions with the Internet. Here, we investigate how the searches of Google users vary across U.S. states with different birth rates and infant mortality rates. We find that users in states with higher birth rates search for more information about pregnancy, while those in states with lower birth rates s...

A household survey was carried out to study infant and under-5 mortality in urban and rural areas of Faisalabad Tehsil. The overall infant mortality rate was 110.1 (per 1000 live births). The under-5 mortality rate was calculated as 158.6 (per 1000 live births). These rates were higher in rural areas than in urban areas. The infant as well as under-5 mortality rates for females were higher than...

The infant mortality rate is the number of infants that die for every 1,000 children born alive each year. This rate is very high in India. Yet the public and the authorities concerned have not paid much attention to this very important problem. The reason, I suppose, is the high birth rate, which to a great extent obscures the issue. But as in other countries, as the economic stress and strain...

OBJECTIVES This goal of this study was to shed light on the ecological context as a potential determinant of the infant mortality rate in nine high-focus states in India. METHODS Data from the Annual Health Survey (2010-2011), the Census of India (2011), and the District Level Household and Facility Survey 3 (2007-08) were used in this study. In multiple regression analysis explanatory variab...

In this paper we explore the relation between changes in reproductive behavior, such as those that might result from an effective family planning program in developing countries, and changes in child and maternal mortality. Specifically, we use the results from recent multivariate studies to estimate the changes in mortality that might result from altering maternal age, birth order, and birth s...

background breast cancer (bc) is the most common cancer in iranian women. studying the mortality statistics is important to monitor the effects of screening programs or the influence of earlier diagnosis on the burden of this chronic disease. misclassification is still a problem in the iranian death registry data and about 20% of death statistics are recorded in misclassified categories. object...