BACKGROUND The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the population to the exclusion of the rest. More comprehensive measures such as disability adjusted life expectancy (DALE) have come into favour as alternatives. These more comprehensive measures of p...

OBJECTIVE The Joint Working Group on First Nations, Indian, Inuit, and Métis Infant Mortality of the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System is a collaboration of national Aboriginal organizations and federal and provincial/territorial stakeholders. Our objective was to better understand what is currently known about Aboriginal infant mortality rates (IMR) in Canada. METHODS As part of a large...

BACKGROUND Forecasting of health indicators is of great importance for health policy makers. This study is aimed to forecast some important health indicators like crude death rate (CDR), crude birth rate (CBR), and infant mortality rate (IMR) and total fertility rate (TFR) of Pakistan. METHODS In this retrolective study, annual data of these indicators for years 1984-2010 have been used. The ...

Recent decades have seen significant improvements in health indicators in many East Asian countries. The infant mortality rate (IMR), a useful overall health indicator, fell from 40 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 35 in 1999 for the East Asia region as a whole (Table 1). Yet progress on health in the region has tended to lag that on other development indicators, and to disappoint in several way...

Recent decades have seen significant improvements in health indicators in many East Asian countries. The infant mortality rate (IMR), a useful overall health indicator, fell from 40 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 35 in 1999 for the East Asia region as a whole (Table 1). Yet progress on health in the region has tended to lag that on other development indicators, and to disappoint in several way...

OBJECTIVE to present a method for estimating low birth weight (LBW) prevalence and infant mortality rate (IMR) indicators for Brazilian municipalities, so as to incorporate considerations with regard to sampling fluctuation. METHODS binomial and Poisson distributions were used to estimate 95% confidence intervals (95%CI); when the number of infant deaths was zero, the upper limit of the 95%CI...

We assess the extent to which differences in socio-economic status are associated with racial and ethnic gaps in a fundamental measure of population health: the rate at which infants die. Using micro-level Vital Statistics data from 2000 to 2004 for whites, blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Asians, and Native Americans, we first examine how infant mortality and its subcomponents are associated w...

Objective: Infant mortality is an important indicator of the health status of a community. In this analysis, we aimed to evaluate temporal changes in infant mortality rates (IMR) in the Central Hillsborough Healthy Start (CHHS) program service area in Tampa, Florida compared to rates in the rest of Hillsborough County and the state. Method: We conducted a five-year (2010-2014) trends analysis u...

OBJECTIVES To assess, in a population-based study, whether secular trends in cardiovascular disease mortality in seven European countries were correlated with past trends in infant mortality rate (IMR) in these countries. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Data on ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke mortality in 1950-1999 in the Netherlands, England & Wales, France, and four Nordic countries were a...

BACKGROUND Ethiopia has made large-scale healthcare investments to improve child health and survival. However, there is insufficient population level data on the current estimates of infant mortality rate (IMR) in the country. The aim of this study was to measure infant mortality rate, investigate risk factors for infant deaths and identify causes of death in a rural population of northern Ethi...