Covariates of infant mortality in China: an exploratory approach

Article Abstract:

The Alternating Conditional Expectation (ACE) algorithm-guided transformation is a useful tool in multivariate analysis. This was concluded in an examination of the relationship between infant mortality in China and various covariates using data from the 2/1000 Chinese Fertility Survey. The covariates transformed with the help of the ACE algorithm were used to estimate the impact of socioeconomic and demographic factors selected in an analysis of infant death in China. Following appropriate transformations, all the variables were found to have a significant and direct effect on infant death.

China, Usage, Demographic aspects, Analysis of covariance, Covariance analysis

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Birthweight-specific infant mortality risks for Native Americans and Whites, United States, 1960 and 1984

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The chances of Native American neonatal death are affected less by low birthweights when compared to rates for whites. The birthweight distribution for the Native Americans and whites were comparable for the years 1960 and 1984. However, neonatal death risk for the Native Americans decreased from 20.2 in 1960 to 5.2 in 1984, and the relative risk for the Native Americans as compared to the whites dropped from 1.31 in 1960 to an insignificant difference in 1984.

Birth weight, Low, Low birth weight

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Decline of tuberculosis mortality in an urban Mexican-origin population, 1935-1984

Article Abstract:

Tuberculosis in Mexican-origin community between 1935 and 1984 changed from being a major cause of death, to a disease seen as contributing to, rather than causing death, according to life table analyses. There was a remarkable fall in death rates between 1940 and 1950, and there was a quick convergenge in age-specific patterns of tuberculosis death rates in Mexican Americans to those of non-Hispanic whites.

Health aspects, Tuberculosis, Mexicans

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