Preventable Feto-infant Mortality

Using the Perinatal Periods of Risk Approach to Reduce Feto-Infant Mortality:

A Conceptual Model of Feto-infant Mortality in Late and Low Fertility Context1

Many researches have been undertaken in order to detect the influence of social and biological factors on feto-infant mortality. The epidemiological and medical literature focuses more on the biological factors while the demographic literature focuses on social factors. The awareness by social scientists of the importance of linking both types of factors in order to understand the feto-infant m...

Feto-infant mortality in Southern Nevada: A Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) assessment

Objective This report presents recent trends relating to perinatal mortality in Southern Nevada for available data years from 2000 through 2012. Data and methods Data from the live birth/fetal death (preliminary from 2011 onwards) and death (preliminary from 2012 onwards) registries were used to develop rate estimates. The Perinatal Periods of Risk approach was adopted to provide an actionorien...

Categories of preventable unexpected infant deaths.

The conclusions of confidential inquiries into 115 registered unexpected infant deaths over a period of nine years were reviewed. Deaths were classified based on the total information available into group A: poor prognosis (n = 7), group B: treatable disease (n = 45), group C: minor disease (n = 32), group D: no disease (n = 19), group E: probably accidental (n = 4), and group F: probably filic...

Reproductive justice & preventable deaths: State funding, family planning, abortion, and infant mortality, US 1980–2010

INTRODUCTION Little current research examines associations between infant mortality and US states' funding for family planning services and for abortion, despite growing efforts to restrict reproductive rights and services and documented associations between unintended pregnancy and infant mortality. MATERIAL AND METHODS We obtained publicly available data on state-only public funding for fam...