Infant Mortality problems have been around for a long time (maybe that is why sometimes we have a shorter warranty period for many electronic products). Anyway, the explanation of infant mortality is that these are left over (or latent) defects. Defects that do not necessarily expose themselves and they can skip by all the manufacturing tests, including system test. However, with electrical and...

� FN SERVICES. *6+ %, status of a nation or community. Infant mortality rates are very useful for identi$ing problems with the health status of infants and mothers, as well as possible problems in the delivery of health care and related services to these groups in a community. The use of infant mortality rates at the local planning level is unfortunately limited by yearly fluctuations in the ra...

BACKGROUND The purpose was to develop and test a population health measure that combines mean health outcomes and inequalities into a single GDP-like metric to help policymakers measure population health performance on both dimensions in one metric. METHODS The Population Health Performance Index is a weighted average of a mean index and an inequality index according to the user's inequality ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between maternal obesity and infant mortality, while including information about mode of delivery and interpregnancy weight change. DESIGN Register-based cohort study. SETTING AND POPULATION A total of 1 199 183 singletons, including 3481 infant deaths, from the Swedish Birth Register 1992-2006. METHODS Maternal body mass index (BMI) was obtained from ...

BACKGROUND Several studies suggest that airborne particulate matter (PM) is associated with infant mortality; however, most focused on short-term exposure to larger particles. OBJECTIVES We evaluated associations between long-term exposure to different sizes of particles [total suspended particles (TSP), PM ≤ 10 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM₁₀), ≤ 10-2.5 μm (PM(10-2.5)), and ≤ 2.5 μm (PM(2.5...

Chronic non-communicable diseases represent a major public health problem, requiring more effective investigation and control by government agencies. The aim of this study was to correlate the mortality rate for oral cancer in Brazilian State capitals from 1998 to 2002 with socioeconomic factors collected in the 2000 census, using an ecological study design. Data were obtained from the Mortalit...

There are substantial regional disparities in under-five mortality in Nigeria, and evidence suggests that both individual- and community-level characteristics have an influence on health outcomes. Using 2008 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey data, this study (1) examines the effects of individual- and community-level characteristics on infant/child mortality in Nigeria and (2) determines th...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of changing practice with regard to infant sleeping position on mortality from the sudden infant death syndrome. DESIGN A population based study of all infants dying suddenly and unexpectedly during February 1990 to July 1991, and two groups of controls; one comprising every 125th baby born to Avon residents and the other comprising pairs of infants matched to ...

Introduction: Measuring the patient mortality rate is the most important indicator for the evaluation of healthcare capabilities in intensive care units in hospitals and health systems. This study aims to investigate the impact of the socio economic status of households on premature infant mortality in hospitals affiliated to the Tehran University of Medical Sciences. <st...