Children are important assets of a nation, therefore reduction in infant and child mortality is likely the most important objective of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Infant and child mortality rates reflect a country's level of socio-economic development and quality of life and are used ...
Drug resistant infections associated with higher in-hospital mortality rates in Indiaby Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy In one of the largest studies to measure the burden of antibiotic resistance in a low- or middle-income country, researchers at the Center for Disease Dynamics, ...
Infant mortality rates for India at 132 compares poorly with levels below 20 seen in most western countries. Maternal mortality is also extremely high and its high incidence is attributed to early marriage physical exhaustion mishandling of women during births and paucity of proper birthing facilities...
IndiachildhoodThe present study attempts to investigate the association between public spending on health and childhood mortality in India; using time-series cross-sectional data from various government sources for the period 1985-2009. Infant and child (age 1 to 4 years) mortality rates were used ...
Recent advances in the craft of demographic estimation from defective data, and improvements in data base because of the development of the Sample Registration System and the conduct of several sample surveys, call for a reassessment of levels and trends in vital rates in India. As the reappraisal...
This paper measures the degree of inequality in child mortality rates across districts in India, using data from the 1981, 1991 and 2001 Indian population censuses. The results show that child mortality is more concentrated in less developed districts in all three census years. Further, between 19...
Child mortality rates in rural India: an experience from the Ballabgarh project. In a special project area of rural India the age-specific mortality rates of a birth cohort 0-59 months old were calculated from 1991 to 1999. The mortali... Kabir,Z. - 《Journal of Tropical Pediatrics》 被引...
The inferences drawn from this study are as follows: The stagnation/increase in mortality rates of adult ages in the recent years in India as well as for the major states may be attributed to food shortages and price hikes experienced in the country during 1960-74. In other words, all tho...
We test the effects of political capacity on infant mortality rates in fifteen Indian states in the period 1981 to 2000. We find that the political capacity of a state government lowers infant mortality in the low and middle income states. This effect gets weaker across higher income levels. ...
The narrowing down of the gap between male and female mortality rates had started in the late 1970s and all the indicators considered here suggest that at present there is an excess of male mortality in India. The mortality change was favourable for improvement in sex ratio; the analysis ...