Narrowing social inequalities in health? Analysis of trends in mortality among babies of lone mothers (abridged version 1).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine trends in mortality among babies registered solely by their mother (lone mothers) and to compare these with trends in infant mortality for couple registrations overall and couple registrations subdivided by social class of father.

Design

Analysis of trends in infant death rates from 1975 to 1996 for the three groups. The data source was the national linked infant mortality file, containing all records of infant death in England and Wales linked to the respective birth records.

Setting

England and Wales.

Participants

All live births (n=14.3 million) from 1975 to 1996; all deaths of infants from birth to 12 months of age over the same period (n=135 800).

Main outcome measures

Death rates in the perinatal, neonatal, and postneonatal pe

SUBMITTER: Whitehead M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC27812 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature