Juan Ignacio Ruiz|Kaamel Nuhu|Justin T. McDaniel|Federico Popoff|Ariel Izcovich|Juan Criniti
Inequality as a Powerful Predictor of Infant and Maternal Mortality around the World
Southern Illinois University Carbondale|Southern Illinois University Carbondale|Southern Illinois University Carbondale|Hospital Alemán|Hospital Alemán|Hospital Alemán
maternal infant mortality highly devastating yet many cases preventable events community human development country strong predictor maternal infant mortality reflecting importance socioeconomic factors determinants health previous research shown human development index hdi predicts infant mortality rate imr maternal mortality ratio mmr inequality also shown associated worse health certain populations main purpose present study determine correlation predictive power inequality adjusted human development index ihdi measure inequality infant mortality rate imr maternal mortality rate mmr early neonatal mortality rate enmr late neonatal mortality rate lnmr post neonatal mortality rate pnmrdata present study downloaded two sources infant maternal mortality data downloaded global burden disease 2013 cause death database human development index hdi inequalityadjusted human development index ihdi data downloaded united nations development program undp pearson correlation coefficients estimated following logarithmic transformations data examine relationship hdi ihdi mmr imr enmr lnmr pnmr steigers z test equality two dependent correlations utilized order determine whether hdi ihdi strongly associated outcome variables lastly constructed ols regression models order determine predictive power hdi ihdi terms mmr imr enmr lnmr pnmr maternal infant mortality strongly negatively correlated hdi ihdi however steigers z test equality two dependent correlations revealed ihdi strongly correlated hdi mmr z 4897 p 0001 imr z 2524 p 0012 enmr z 2936 p 0003 lnmr z 2272 p 0023 pnmr z 2277 p 0023 furthermore sidebyside ols regression models revealed ihdi used predictor variable instead hdi r2 value 0053 higher mmr 0025 higher imr 0038 higher enmr 0029 higher lnmr 0026 higher pnmreven hdi ihdi correlate infant maternal mortality rates ihdi better predictor two health indicators therefore results add evidence inequality playing important role determining health status various populations world efforts put programs fight inequality