Mortalidade infantil proporcional, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
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In 1980 a study was made of 11 521 death certificates, 3 146 of them for infants under one year of age, to trace the geographic distribution of proportionate infant mortality in Salvador municipality and examine is possible relationships with certain socioeconomic characteristics of the populations residing in the city's various neighborhoods that year. Because of the difficulties encountered in estimating the infant mortality rate by neighborhoods and lack of information on the numbers of live births in them, the proportionate mortality among infants under one year of age was used as a substitute indicator. The independent variabes were income, availability of a water supply, type of dwelling, number of persons per household, medical and health care, and education , and the data for them were obtained from official sources. Proportionate infant mortality was found to vary considerably from one city neighborhood to another, and more significant correlations were found between indicators of socioeconomic variables (income, dwelling, number of persons per housefhold, availability of a water supply) than between those of medical care and education. The authors note that it is important for social policies to give priority to equity and efficiency in implementing proposals for primary care
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Proportional infant mortality, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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