infant mortality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinfantandmortality
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infant
adjective
uk/ˈɪn.fənt/us/ˈɪn.fənt/
related to or connected with the first stage of school in the UK, for children aged four to ...
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mortality
noun[U]
uk/mɔːˈtæl.ə.ti/us/mɔːrˈtæl.ə.t̬i/
the way that people do not live ...
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Certainly, there are some aspects ofinfantmortalitythat relate to medical care.
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During the first decade and a half of the centuryinfantmortalitywas horrifyingly high.
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Forinfantmortality, on the other hand, there is an endogenous component involving many causes of death which were less easily eradicated.
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Yet in the case ofinfantmortalitythe urban penalty paradox is even more evident.
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In general, in all the specifications where the coefficient on predictedinfantmortalityis found to be significant, it has a negative sign.
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More than 70% of the population is rural and theinfantmortalityrate is about 206 per 1000.
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The changing pattern of demographic and socioeconomic determinants ofinfantmortalitycan be divided into four sections.
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One possibility is to useinfantmortalityrates as a measure of current health status among childbearing women.
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As withinfantmortality, the greatest differences are associated with the length of the preceding birth interval.
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Birth order does not have a significant gross effect oninfantmortality, but the net effects are significant because of the control on maternal age.
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This, however, is not the case andinfantmortalityhas been generally slightly higher than average in these areas.
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This suggests that the survival status of the preceding child influencedinfantmortalityindependently of parental education and household economic status.
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There has been a substantial reduction ininfantmortalitysince the late 1940s.
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In the developing countriesinfantmortalitystill remains a sensitive indicator of socioeconomic standards.
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