Talk:Infant mortality
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[edit] Add a section for historical trends
I came across this article out of curiosity regarding historical trends in infant mortality e.g. -- rates in antiquity, or in pre industrial Europe, or what have you.
Is this information available anywhere in Wikipedia? If not, then I think that this article could use expansion for a section that deals with trends in such over long historical periods
I too would like such data, presented somewhere. Specifically, what fraction of births reached their majority (18 or 21, or such age that normally allows them to marry and have children) over historical times. I have found that the average death age for the kings of England and Scotland from 1000 to 1600 AD was 49, somewhat better than monks of the period. I presume this was better than the general population; but in both of those 'occupations' you have weeded out those that died by age 20. Given infant and childhood mortality rates in the 1800s and extrapolating to 1500, it appears that at least half of the births did not make it to age 20. However, I would like to see the results of some studies. Please assist.
[edit] Update with new data?
Many of the points in here need to be updated with the new data by Save the Children. http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/SOWM_2006_final.pdf?stationpub=000000&ArticleID=&NewsID=
Re: New Data?
WHO statistics estimate diarrhea as the 2nd most common cause of deaths (17% of deaths) in children under age 5, the most common cause being acute respiratory infection (19% of deaths).
These WHO statistics can be found in (Lancet 2005; 365: 1147–52). This article also breaks down causes of childhood mortality (<5yrs old) for 6 regions of the world.
A graph representing causes of death among chilldren under 5 years of age, and other useful information can be found at: http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/OVERVIEW/CHILD_HEALTH/child_epidemiology.htm
--65.125.151.253 18:07, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Why no complete list... even the links don't take you to a complete list and start somewhere around 170?--209.248.136.146 13:39, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Global Data
Using information from the CIA World Fact Book, I think I could produce a statistical map for this page. I'll let you know when I'm done. Black-Velvet 13:16, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Alright, I made one. But I just realised there's another graph from the Wikimedia Commons. Well, that's a good three hours put to waste. You can find my map 
. Black-Velvet 09:24, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Just a comment here about use of CIA fact book. It seems to me that many articles in many sections use this source as definitive (for political, demographic, and other stats). But there are two issues with this.
First, too seldom do those who cite the fact book note the reference year for the DATA. The CIA Fact book is not always up to date, while original sources from WHO or other organizations always are the latest official stats. So may I recommend that if you do a map you indicate the reference year? 1990, 2000, 2005, or what? This way, you or somebody else can update the statistics. Second, I would recommend that with any health or population stats for multiple countries, the UN or other internatioal agency source be given (UN Demographic Yearbook or whatever), because that's where the most recent updates are going to be found, and that, after all, is where the factbook gets its own data (it doesn't do independent evaluation of those data). Thank you.Mack2 21:46, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Abortions
Any data on how the cultural preferences on abortion affects IM? For example, some infants born with certain diseases might be outright aborted in certain nations where it's more culturally permissable to do so.--Rotten 18:57, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Capitalism and Infant Mortality
The Capitalism states that globalization and capitalism leads to public income growth and that this is the cause of decline in infant mortality. For me this is true in an absulute overview, but not as direct parameters highly correlated. The amount of money spent for public health care is the nummer which counts, normaly rich countries spent more money for this so you get your correlation. Cuba was and is a example for the opposit coorelation, low GDP/head and low infant mortality, because the medical system is well developed. The people on the talk page of capitalism claim that abortion lowers the number of children dieing later. My question: Is ist a good thing to tie Capitalism and Infant mortality closely together? --Stone 12:54, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
