Infant health and mortality indicators |
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Authors: | Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant Catherine Gourbin |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institut de Démographie, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1 Place Montesquieu, bte 17, B-1348, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Abstract: | The ability of infant mortality and health indicators to monitor health conditions in early infancy, and their broader use as indicators of the general level of socio-economic development are discussed from three points of view. These are: (i) the increasing impact of differences in legal definitions of live and stillbirths on the comparability of the infant mortality figures produced by vital statistics; (ii) the validity of mortality measures to monitor health; (iii) the comparability of social inequalities in infant health and mortality over time and across countries. |
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