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S: http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/infantmortality.htm (last access: 4 September 2014); https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html (last access: 4 September 2014); NAVARRO p. 503.
N: 1. infant (n/adj): late 14c., “child during earliest period of life” (sometimes extended to age 7 and sometimes including a fetus), from Latin infantem (nominative infans) “young child, babe in arms,” noun use of adjective meaning “not able to speak,” from in- “not, opposite of” + fans, present participle of fari “to speak,” from PIE root *bha- (2) “to speak, tell, say”. As an adjective, 1580s, from the noun.
mortality (n): mid-14c., “condition of being mortal,” from Old French mortalite “massacre, slaughter; fatal illness; poverty; destruction” (12c.), from Latin mortalitem (nominative mortalitas) “state of being mortal; subjection to death,” from mortalis. Meaning “widespread death” is from c. 1400; meaning “number of deaths from some cause or in a given period” is from 1640s.
2. The death of a baby before his or her first birthday is called infant mortality. The infant mortality rate is an estimate of the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births. This rate is often used as an indicator to measure the health and well-being of a nation, because factors affecting the health of entire populations can also impact the mortality rate of infants. There are obvious differences in infant mortality by age, race, and ethnicity; for instance, the mortality rate for non-Hispanic black infants is more than twice that of non-Hispanic white infants.
3. DHS surveys routinely collect data on infant and child mortality and child health. Several measures of childhood mortality are calculated using DHS survey data:
- Neonatal mortality – the probability of dying within the 1st month of life
- Infant mortality – the probability of dying before the 1st birthday
- Postneonatal mortality – the difference between infant and neonatal mortality
- Under-five mortality – the probability of dying before the fifth birthday
- Child mortality – the probability of dying between the 1st and 5th birthdays.
What are the DHS indicators related to infant and child mortality?
- Infant and child mortality by background characteristics (10-year rates)
- Infant and child mortality by demographic characteristics (10-year rates)
- Reporting of age at death in days
- Reporting of age at death in months
- Perinatal mortality.
S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=infant; http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=mortality&searchmode=none (last access: 10 October 2015). 2. http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/infantmortality.htm (last access: 10 october 2015). 3. http://dhsprogram.com/topics/Infant-and-Child-Mortality.cfm (last access: 23 August 2015).
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