Secular changes of the sex-ratio of stillbirths and early deaths in Italy: Evidence for postponement of male specific risk

The Sardinian experience of the lowest Italian infant mortality at the turn of the twentieth century. True or false empirical evidence?

“…Calabria and Sicily, as well as Sardinia, were characterised by extremely low initial levels of stillbirth rates (the area included in the ellipsis). The strong increase in stillbirth rates observed in these regions and their level in line with those of the other ones, at the beginning of the twentieth century, reveal the significant limitations of stillbirth registration practices (Ulizzi, Novelletto, 1984;Woods, 2009).…”