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- Title
Infectious Disease Mortality among Infants in the United States, 1983 through 1987.
- Authors
Read, Jennifer S.; Troendle, James F.; Klebanoff, Mark A.
- Abstract
The article presents a study which seeks to determine the relative importance of infectious disease as a cause of infant mortality in the U.S. While infection is responsible for a large proportion of infant deaths in developing countries, it is not perceived as a significant cause of infant mortality in the U.S. Indeed, while congenital anomalies and sudden infant death syndrome have been consistently ranked as the two most common causes of infant mortality in this country, infectious diseases have been ranked much lower. The goals of this study were to determine the relative importance of infectious diseases as a cause of infant morality in the U.S. and to identity characteristics at birth that are associated with infectious disease mortality during infancy. Although analysis of mortality data is usually performed with survival analysis, categorical analyses of the data are presented in this paper for ease of presentation and comprehension.
- Subjects
UNITED States; INFANT mortality; MORTALITY; COMMUNICABLE diseases; DISEASES
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1997, Vol 87, Issue 2, p192
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.87.2.192