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Infant Health and Mortality Indicators - Their Accuracy for Monitoring the Socioeconomic-development in the Europe of 1994

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Masuy-Stroobant, Godelieve [UCL] Gourbin, Catherine [UCL]

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.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 1995
Language Anglais
Journal information "European Journal of Population" - Vol. 11, no. 1, p. 63-84 (1995)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Kluwer Academic Publ (Dordrecht)
issn 0168-6577
e-issn 1572-9885
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL
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Bibliographic reference Masuy-Stroobant, Godelieve ; Gourbin, Catherine. Infant Health and Mortality Indicators - Their Accuracy for Monitoring the Socioeconomic-development in the Europe of 1994. In: European Journal of Population, Vol. 11, no. 1, p. 63-84 (1995)
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