Childhood, infant and perinatal mortality, 1996; social and biological factors in deaths of children aged under 3.
This article comments on statistics recently published by ONS relating to infant and childhood mortality in 1996. Several factors--birthweight, mother's age, marital status of parents, father's social class, mother's country of birth, multiple birth status, and sex--are known to be associated with the risk of mortality in infants under one year of age. For the first time, ONS is now able to analyse the deaths of 1 and 2 year-old children according to these same factors. The results indicate that these factors are also associated with mortality rates in these older children.
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D002423:Cause of Death; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014852:Wales