Infant mortality and health care in Mexican communities

John Holian

Social Science & Medicine, 1989, vol. 29, issue 5, 677-679

Abstract: Data from the 1976-1977 Mexican Fertility Survey show a high degree of correlation among community background characteristics, access to medical services and utilization of health care in a sample of 125 localities. All of these factors are related to infant mortality at the bivariate level. Use of prenatal and infant health care, but not proximity to medical personnel and facilities, is found to affect infant survival independently of the community's degree of socio-economic development. The findings point to the need to employ separate measures of medical access and health utilization.

Keywords: infant; mortality; prenatal; care; medical; access; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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