Determinants of infant and early childhood mortality levels and their decline in the Netherlands in the late nineteenth century
OBJECTIVE: To study the relative importance of various determinants of total and cause-specific infant and early childhood mortality rates and their decline in The Netherlands in the period 1875-1879 to 1895-1899. DATA AND METHODS: Mortality and population data were derived from Statistics Netherlands for 16 towns and 11 rural areas. Mortality levels and their decline were estimated with a Poisson regression model. The associations of the estimated levels and declines, and determinants of infant and early childhood mortality were analysed using multivariate linear regression analysis. The caus... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2000 |
| Schlagwörter: | *Infant Mortality/trends / Catholicism / Child / Preschool / Humans / Infant / Newborn / Netherlands / Regression Analysis / Rural Population / Urban Population / Urbanization |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26833337 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
| Powered By: | BASE |
| Link(s) : | http://repub.eur.nl/pub/9547 |
OBJECTIVE: To study the relative importance of various determinants of total and cause-specific infant and early childhood mortality rates and their decline in The Netherlands in the period 1875-1879 to 1895-1899. DATA AND METHODS: Mortality and population data were derived from Statistics Netherlands for 16 towns and 11 rural areas. Mortality levels and their decline were estimated with a Poisson regression model. The associations of the estimated levels and declines, and determinants of infant and early childhood mortality were analysed using multivariate linear regression analysis. The causes of death studied were major contributors to infant mortality (convulsions, acute digestive disease, acute respiratory disease) and early childhood mor