Outlines a roadmap toward a comprehensive monitoring system that national and regional decisionmakers can use to track progress toward World Health Organization goals to reduce the global burden of noncommunicable diseases.
This briefing identifies policy questions related to compensating service members and their survivors for fatality risk. It compares combat fatality patterns with fatalities occurring in other contexts and discusses current compensation programs.
Evaluates factors including household preferences, resource constraints, and background factors such as risks and economic shocks in determining childhood investments in rural India.
Concerns about the cost and quality of health care have resulted in a national effort to determine the health outcomes of medical and surgical services.
This report presents an approach for selecting medical conditions for measuring technical quality of care, based on the expected impact of improved quality of care.
Presents a statistical framework and associated data analyses that should inform the interpretation of hospital death rates for Medicare patients.
Reviews biomedical mechanisms connecting maternal age, parity, and birth spacing with infant mortality and assesses their likely importance in developing countries.
Various potential measures of quality of care are being used to differentiate hospitals. In 1986, on the basis of diagnostic and demographic data, the Health Care Financing Administration identified hospitals in which the actual death rate differed ...
Using hospital discharge abstract data for fiscal year 1984 for all acute-care hospitals treating Medicare patients, the authors measured four mortality rates: inpatient deaths, deaths within 30 days of discharge, and deaths within two fixed periods...
From 1941 through 1975, infant and child mortality rates were higher in the poorest states than in the other states of Peninsular Malaysia. This Note investigates possible reasons for those higher rates, using household-level data ...
It uses individual-level retrospective data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey to examine why the infant mortality rate (IMR) has declined rapidly in Malaysia since World War II.
Household data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey are used to assess the roles of mortality correlates in explaining the inverse relationship between the infant mortality rate (IMR) and socioeconomic development. Increases in mothers' education an...
The infant mortality rate has declined dramatically in Peninsular Malaysia since World War II. This study uses individual-level retrospective data on infant mortality and its correlates to examine possible reasons for this decline.
This study examines the determinants of infant mortality variations in Peninsular Malaysia.
Sketches an alternative model which has been used to analyze breastfeeding, contraceptive use, birthspacing, and infant mortality using data from the Malaysian Family Life Survey.
For analytic purposes, the postwar increase in population growth rates in low-income countries can be divided into two components: reduction in child mortality and reduction in adult death rates. Each calls for a different method of analysis. Soci...
A detailed analysis of survey data collected in 1961-1962 for a sample of 4200 families in central East Pakistan produced consistent and reasonable estimates of birth and death rates for the preceding decade. Extremely high levels of infant and child...
An analysis of the changes in mortality estimates that occur with changes in the population representations used for damage assessment. Representations for the U.S. population are created by laying a square mesh grid of a specified dimension over a ...
A presentation of methods which determine some valid large sample tests and confidence intervals for the mortality rate. Differences are examined between customary "unit" deaths estimated by policy coverage and actual mortality governed solely by dea...
A simplified method to estimate parameters for the case in which the age-specific death rate is representable as an unknown linear combination of known functions.
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