Background Maternal and child mortality rates in Indonesia have stagnated and even tend to increase for infant mortality, especially in areas with geographical barriers such as eastern Indonesia. Integrated approach in health planning process needs to be established to improve the planning capacity and to maximise potential collaboration between health-related stakeholders. This study aimed to ...

Infant and child mortality rates are important indicators of the health status of a country. This paper presents the spatial analysis of infant and child mortality rates among the geopolitical zones of Nigeria with the objective of highlighting the unevenness in childhood mortality rates among the regions. Data for the study was obtained from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys of 1999 a...

schizophrenia is one of the most severe psychiatric disorders and 25% of the patients need long term hospitalization. they have somatic illness that may be ignored and lead to death. considering the lack of information regarding the causes of death in schizophrenic patients, the aim of this study was to determine the main causes of death in the long term hospitalized schizophrenic patients in s...

Large rural-urban child mortality differentials in many developing countries suggest that rural families can improve their children's survival chances by leaving the countryside and settling in towns and cities. This study uses data from Demographic and Health Surveys in 17 countries to assess the impact of maternal rural-urban migration on the survival chances of children under age two in the ...

Infants and child under-five years' morbidity and mortality trends, due to several causes, reflect a country level of socioeconomic development and quality of life. The aim of this study is to identify the factors related to infant~ and child mortality in Wad-Medani Children Teaching Hospital in central Sudan. It investigated the relationship between the demographic and socioeconomic factors an...

Among European countries, the Netherlands has the second lowest child mortality rate from external causes. We present an overview, discuss possible explanations, and suggest prevention measures. We analyzed mortality data from all deceased children aged 0-19 years for the period 1969-2011. Child mortality declined in the past decades, largely from decreases in road traffic accidents that follow...

Non-nested hypothesis tests are used to rank eight widely used international per capita income and poverty measures with respect to how well they predict changes in capabilities: lower child mortality, higher enrollment rates, better nutrition, etc. National accounts based generally out-perform survey-based growth and poverty estimates in these tests. D 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

As cities of developing nations absorb an increasing fraction of the world's population increase, questions have arisen about the potential for emerging inequalities in health within places that are already suffering from inadequate infrastructure. In this paper we explore the pattern of child mortality inequalities (as a proxy for overall health levels) within a large sub-Saharan African city-...

We review sources of bias which can affect non-randomized cohort studies of non-specific effects of vaccines on child mortality. Using examples from the literature on non-specific effects, we describe different sources of selection and information bias, and, where possible, outline analysis strategies to mitigate or eliminate such biases.