The relationship between infant mortality rates and medical care and socio-economic variables, Chile 1960-1970.
Infant mortality rates (IMR) have traditionally been considered useful as health status indicators, and changes in these rates are thought to reflect changes in both medical care services and socio-economic circumstances. In order to explore this relationship of IMR with medical core and socio-economic factors in a developing country, Chilean health zone data for the decade 1960--1970 were used to construct 25 variables which were then classified into groups representing antenatal-obstetric services, acute and preventive medical services and socio-economic variables. In an analysis which involved developing a series of linear multiple regression equations for each year of the decade 1960--1970 with IMR as the dependent variable, the percentage of births with professional attention proved to be the stronger variable.
D002662:Child Health Services; D002677:Chile; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006296:Health Services; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008427:Maternal Health Services; D011314:Preventive Health Services; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors