BACKGROUND Although measuring socioeconomic inequality in population health indicators like infant mortality is important, more interesting for policy purposes is to try to explain infant mortality inequality. The objective of this paper is to quantify for the first time the determinants' contributions of socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran. METHODS A nationally representativ...

BACKGROUND Gender inequality weakens maternal health and harms children through many direct and indirect pathways. Allied biological disadvantage and psychosocial adversities challenge the survival of children of both genders. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has recently developed a Gender Inequality Index to measure the multidimensional nature of gender inequality. The global impac...

BACKGROUND The relationship between income inequality and health remains controversial in terms of whether or not it exists and, if so, its extent and the mechanisms involved. This study examines the relationship between income inequality, as indicated by the Gini coefficient, and mortality in Italy. METHODS Cross-sectional ecological study on the 57,138,489 inhabitants living in the 95 provi...

introduction the preservation and promotion of the health in children who are one of the most vulnerable parts in any society has an important role in the health system of each country. in this study, the socioeconomic factors affecting the infant mortality in eastern mediterranean regional office (emro) countries have been examined during the time period from 2000 to 2013. materials and method...

Our replication of Deaton and Lubotsky's [(2003). Mortality, inequality and race in American cities and states. Social Science & Medicine, 56.] study "Mortality, Inequality and Race in American Cities and States" identifies a coding error in the econometric analysis in the original paper. Correcting the error changes the basic results of the paper with respect to inequality and mortality in a r...

BACKGROUND Exploring changes in health inequality and its determinants over time is of policy interest. Accordingly, this study aimed to decompose inequality in neonatal mortality into its contributing factors and then explore changes from 1995-2000 to 2005-2010 in Iran. METHODS Required data were drawn from two Iran's demographic and health survey (DHS) conducted in 2000 and 2010. Normalized...

OBJECTIVE To measure the socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran (the Islamic Republic of Iran). METHODS We analysed data from the provincially representative Demographic and Health Survey, which was done in Iran in 2000. We used a dichotomous hierarchical ordered probit model to develop an indicator of socioeconomic status of households. We assessed the inequality in infant mort...

We analyse the evolution of mortality rates in Spain by age and gender between 1990 2018. compare municipalities, ranked socio-economic status (SES) grouped into bins similar population size, to study changes not only levels but also inequality across SES spectrum. document large decreases throughout period for all groups, including children, even after 2000, continuing Great Recession. These d...