OBJECTIVE To analyze the trend and spatial distribution of infant mortality from congenital malformations in Argentina between 2002 and 2006. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were provided by the Ministry of Public Health. Congenital malformations were classified according to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision. Early neonatal, late neonatal and postneonatal infant mortality...

OBJECTIVE To investigate associations between maternal overweight and obesity and infant mortality outcomes, including cause-specific mortality. DESIGN Population based cohort study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS 1,857,822 live single births in Sweden 1992-2010. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Associations between maternal body mass index (BMI) in early pregnancy and risks of infant, neonatal, and postn...

To compare the pattern of cause of death of infant mortality rates by urban/rural areas as well as to generate knowledge for potential strategies to decrease this mortality, we carried out a study by analyzing the infant mortality data from the Shenyang Women and Children Health Care Centre. From 1997 to 2014, 970,583 live births and 6510 infant deaths were registered. Infant mortality rates, p...

Elwood, J. H., and Pemberton, J. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 332. Infant mortality in Belfast. Data on all livebirths and infant deaths occurring to residents in Belfast 1963-5 and in Birmingham 1964 were analysed in order to examine possible reasons why the infant mortality rate in Belfast (29 *4 per 1000 livebirths) was higher than in Birmingham (21 4). The hypothesis that t...

Based on ecological studies, second demographic transition (SDT) theorists concluded that some areas in the US were in vanguard of the SDT compared to others, implying spatial nonstationarity may be inherent in the SDT process. Linking the SDT to the infant mortality literature, we sought out to answer two related questions: Are the main components of the SDT, specifically marriage postponement...

In the United States, different racial and ethnic groups have very different infant mortality patterns. When assessing the relative contribution of the percentage of preterm births and gestational age-specific infant mortality rates to racial and ethnic infant mortality differences, we found that for non-Hispanic black women, 78 percent of their elevated infant mortality rate compared with non-...