Child Mortality in Jamaica

McKenzie, H. I.; Lovell, H. G.; Standard, K. L.; Miall, W. E.

doi:10.2307/3349009

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“…5 deaths or pregnancies that terminated in abortion or stillbirth, the probability of infant death occurring is greater. 6 In the Terai areas of Nepal, the survival of the previous child was shown to be significantly related to the survival of the last child.7 Cochrane assumed this outcome to be biological.…”

Section: The Effect Of Previous Child Death On Infant and Child Mortamentioning

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The Effect of Previous Child Death on Infant and Child Mortality in Rural Nepal

Gubhaju¹

1985

Studies in Family Planning

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Data from the Nepal Fertility Survey 1976, which was carried out by the Nepal Family Planning and Maternal-Child Health Project in collaboration with the World Fertility Survey, is used to explore the interrelationships of sibling mortality. Even when demographic variables are considered, the risk of infant and child death is considerably higher among children of mothers whose previous child died than among those whose previous child survived. An attempt is also made to examine whether it is because of close birth spacing or because of the family environment that the previous child loss puts the subsequent children at an excessive risk of dying during infancy and childhood.

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Section: The Effect Of Previous Child Death On Infant and Child Mortamentioning

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The Effect of Previous Child Death on Infant and Child Mortality in Rural Nepal

Gubhaju¹

1985

Studies in Family Planning

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“…Early studies showed that rural dwelling children of lower socioeconomic status were smaller in stature than their city dwelling counterparts during this era (Lovell, 1972). During this period, child mortality was largely confined to members of the lowest socioeconomic classes (Mckenzie et al, 1967). This early postcolonial era in Jamaica was marked by decreases in the employment rates, and standard of living of the working class Jamaican population.…”

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Adult health outcomes and their implications for experiences of childhood nutritional stress in Jamaica

Nelson

2009

American J Hum Biol

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With insights from the developmental origins of health and disease paradigm (DOHaD), this study explores the impact of childhood nutritional stress on adult health outcomes in Jamaica. Jamaica experienced a lengthy period of political and economic instability beginning in the postcolonial period of the early 1960s. This study tests whether decreased government spending on public resources and limited access to imported food products during the early postcolonial period will be reflected in increased adiposity and body mass index among Jamaican adults. Ethnographic and anthropometric data were collected from individuals born between 1958 and 1988. Variability in health outcomes was assessed using Z-score values for body mass index and summed skinfold thickness measures. Age was employed as both a continuous and categorical independent variable. In partial correlation models controlling for economic status, body mass index values and summed skinfold thickness increased with age. Birth cohort and gender effects were also apparent. Women born between 1959 and 1968 had higher body mass index Z-score values than younger women. Both men and women born between 1959 and 1968 had significantly higher skinfold thickness measures than younger individuals. Individuals born between 1959 and 1968 were children during the immediate postcolonial era in Jamaica. Experiences of nutritional stress during critical developmental periods may have contributed to the observed age-related increases in adipose tissue and body mass index values. This study informs our understanding of the ways that fluctuations in the sociopolitical environment during development can mediate and contribute to poor adult health outcomes.

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“…In Jamaica, a developing country where there is still a high rate of mortality and malnutrition in infancy (McKenzie et al, 1967), there is little information about the incidence of anaemia. Ashcroft, Milner, and Wood (1969) studied Hb levels in rural Jamaican infants, some of whom were attending welfare clinics, and suggested that minor degrees of iron and folic acid deficiency may be common.…”

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