Introduction Infant and maternal deaths are highly under-reported in the state. Incentives are given to the community to encourage reporting of infant and maternal deaths but this has not helped much. Consequently infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality ratio (MMR) reported by various districts are low and are not comparable to surveys such as the sample registration survey (SRS) or ...

This ecological study evaluates the association between fatality rates in traffic accidents (FR-V) and the study variables: infant mortality rate (IMR), proportion of young drivers involved in motor vehicle accidents (MVA) with casualties, and the proportion of young residents from 1995 to 1998 in the Brazilian State capitals and the Federal District. There was an important association between ...

In this article, the author proposes to consider a link between infant mortality rate (IMR) and galactic cosmic radiation (CR) density. The periodical increase in solar activity increases the effect of the magnetic field of the sun, and therefore weakens galactic cosmic rays hitting the Earth's surface. As a result, embryos in their early stages of development may be less exposed to high-energy...

Introduction: Indonesia ranks third for maternal mortality rate (MMR) and second infant (IMR) in Southeast Asia. Weight management as a part of premarital preparation by the couple welcoming wedding day life spouses is usually done through physical activities or exercises. This study attempted to analyze characteristics prospective bride groom relationship between social support activity prospe...

This study examined whether the relationship between high poverty and infant mortality rates (IMRs) varied across race- and ethnic-specific populations in large urban areas. Data were drawn from 1990 Census and 1992-1994 Vital Statistics for selected U.S. metropolitan areas. High-poverty areas were defined as neighborhoods in which > or = 40% of the families had incomes below the federal povert...

UNLABELLED The study deals with infant mortality (IMR) that is one of the most important aspects of indigenous vulnerability. BACKGROUND The Sami are one of very few indigenous peoples with an experience of a positive mortality transition. OBJECTIVE Using unique mortality data from the period 1750-1900 Sami and the colonizers in northern Sweden are compared in order to reveal an eventual in...

Infant mortality rate (IMR) is often considered a better indicator of the overall success of a nation than gross domestic product (GDP) or other leading economic indicators. This study analyzes the relationships between lead economic and health indicators and IMR in developed and developing countries. The analysis uses 2005, 2009, and 2012 panel data from the World Bank and the United Nations H...

This study examined the trend in the infant mortality rate in the Federal District of Brazil (or Greater Metropolitan Brasilia, the national capital) from 1990 to 2000, analyzing the rate according to 5 administrative areas stratified by mean family income, from 1996 to 2000. An ecological time-series study was conducted using the Information Systems on Live Births and Mortality, produced by th...

Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant (IMR) are essential indicators of health development that written on the national plan documents. Nevertheless, Indonesia has not yet achieved target MDG’s SDG’s. In prediction, without extraordinary policies, SDGs will be reached by 2030. The government allocated DAK Fisik Penugasan as one efforts to reduce MMR IMR. So this study aims capture effect in ...

Neonatal mortality rate (NMR) and infant mortality rate (IMR) are two of the most important indices reflecting the level of public health of a country. In this review, we investigated changes in NMR and IMR in Korea and compared the results with those of Japan, USA, and OECD nations. During the past 20 yr, NMR and IMR have lowered remarkably from 6.6 and 9.9 in 1993 to 1.7 and 3.2 in 2009, resp...