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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"infant mortality rate"”.
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Assessment of the IGME methods of estimating infant mortality rate and neonatal mortality rate from under-five mortality rate in countries affected by HIV
… assesses the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) methods of estimating the infant and neonatal mortality rates from the under-five mortality rates in countries affected by HIV/AIDS. It uses Botswana, Malawi and South Africa as case studies. The assessment is made by …
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Infant Mortality in Zambia
… attached to the study and understanding of infant mortality for any country cannot be overestimated. Infant mortality rate is a sensitive index of socio-economic conditions of a population. It is an excellent indicator of the level and quality of the health delivery system and other …
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Infant Mortality in Zambia
… attached to the study and understanding of infant mortality for any country cannot be overestimated. Infant mortality rate is a sensitive index of socio-economic conditions of a population. It is an excellent indicator of the level and quality of the health delivery system and other …
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Implementation of a mHealth Program Within a Homeless Population of Young Mothers
… are born prematurely and an estimated 28,000 infants die before their first birthday annually (<a href="http://www.marchofdimes.com/peristats">www.marchofdimes.com/peristats</a>). New Jersey’s infant mortality rate appears exemplary when compared to the United States overall infant mortality …
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Birth weight and infant mortality in a Western Cape metropolitan area
The nature of the environment, as well as an infant's weight at birth, constitute the major risk factors associated with infant death. It is for this reason that the infant mortality rate is universally recognized as an important indicator of the health status of children, the efficacy of the …
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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 …
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The Impact of Aid on Human Development Indices in Sub-Saharan Africa
… significantly reducing the incidence of HIV, the infant mortality rate and the maternal mortality rate, as well as leading to improved life expectancy. Education aid has a significant effect on the progression to secondary school followed by adult literacy rates. Government and civil society aid …
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An investigation of the determinants of public health expenditure in SADC
… that in the long-run, GOP per capita, infant mortality rate and the ageing population had negative and significant relationships with domestic public health expenditures. Meanwhile, unemployment had a positive and significant relationship with domestic public health expenditures. …
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Essays in Health Economics
… of immigrants as well as the overall insurance rate. It also looks at the effect on health care use and measures of health status. The findings indicate a significant increase in Medicaid coverage and an increase in the proportion insured overall with negligible crowd-out of private insurance. …
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Financial Development and Poverty Reduction in South Africa
… per capita growth, income per capita and infant mortality rate as proxies for poverty, three models were developed. The results show that in the long run, financial development – as measured by the financial depth indicator – has a positive impact on poverty reduction, yet the findings are …
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Experimental trichinosis in Octodon degus (Rodentia)
… period ranged from 60 to 75 days and the annual infant mortality rate was 13%. Further information on the development, reproduction, and behavior of degus is presented.
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Determinants Of Migration: Inter-european Migration, 1950-1989
… contradictions are reduced when studies are separated according to their power to detect the significant push and pull factors. The preliminary findings for the time-series analyzed indicated that these series required differencing once before achieving stationarity and that they were not …
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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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Political economy of health in the Southern African Development Community(SADC) region:The effect of political instability on health outcomes and expenditure
… are life expectancy at birth, maternal mortality ratio, infant mortality rate and HIV incidence. Health expenditure is captured as the percentage of total government expenditure that is allocated to public health. The study conducts a literature review on previous studies that examine …
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Approach to congenital disorders: referral pathways for genetic services in the Eastern Cape
… therefore, contributing to the neonatal and infant mortality rate. When congenital disorders are not considered and correctly diagnosed, the implications for management and for recurrence risk in the family remains unclear. The burden of these disorders in low middle-income countries (LMIC) …
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Decentralization and health performance in Italy: theoretical and empirical issues
… and regional health outcomes, as measured by infant mortality rates, in Italy. The paper employs a panel of all Italian regions over a period of 17 years (from 1996 to 2012), applying a linear Fixed-Effect model. Two different quantitative measures of fiscal decentralization are used, which …
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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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Role of Information Technology in Policy Implementation of Maternal Health Benefits in India
… maternal health and was able to reduce maternal mortality rate from 437 per 100,000 live births in 1990 to 140 per 100,000 in 2015, albeit missing the target of 109. Moreover, estimates for maternal morbidity are three to four times that of the mortality rates with even more pronounced regional …