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- Title
Infant mortality rate as an indicator of population health.
- Authors
Reidpath, D D; Allotey, P
- Abstract
The infant mortality rate (IMR) has been criticised as a measure of population health because it is narrowly based and likely to focus the attention of health policy on a small part of the population to the exclusion of the rest. More comprehensive measures such as disability adjusted life expectancy (DALE) have come into favour as alternatives. These more comprehensive measures of population health, however, are more complex, and for resource poor countries, this added burden could mean diverting funds from much needed programmes. Unfortunately, the conjecture, that DALE is a better measure of population health than IMR, has not been empirically tested.
- Publication
Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2003, Vol 57, Issue 5, p344
- ISSN
0143-005X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/jech.57.5.344