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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Infant mortality rate (IMR)"”.
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Infant Mortality in An Aboriginal Community: An Historical and Biocultural Analysis
… is little information on secular trends in the infant mortality rate (IMR) among aboriginal populations in Canada. Although the Canadian government began collecting vital statistics for Canadian Indians at the turn of the century, records prior to the 1960s have been deemed inaccurate (Romaniuk …
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Scaling the Maternal and Neonatal Survival Initiatives (MANSI) program in low resource settings
The Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) are very high in parts of rural India when compared to other developing and developed countries. To address these high rates the World Health Organization (WHO) set up Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for each country to reach by …
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Health and Poverty: The Issue of Health Inequalities in Ethiopia
… a comprehensive assessment of inequalities in infant and under-five years¿ child survival, access to and utilisations of child health services among different socio-economic groups in Ethiopia; and identify issues for policies and programmes at national and sub-national levels. This thesis …
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Assessment of the association between HIV-infected mothers and the mortality of children less than two years in Khayelitsha health district of the Western Cape : a case-control study
… according to the World Health Organisation, the mortality of children in the second year of life is due mostly to environmental factors and infections. Since 196O the infant mortality rate and the under- five-year mortality rate declined globally. However, the South African National antenatal HIV …