Child Mortality in Jamaica

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Abstract
The circumstances of a 10% random sample of children who died when between the ages of 6 months and 3 years, during a 12-month period, were investigated by interviewing their mothers or guardians. This information was compared with that obtained from similar interviews for age- and sex-matched controls obtained from a random sample of children living anywhere in Jamaica. From data collected at the interviews, malnutrition was a primary or contributory factor in 65% of the deaths. Mothers of the dead children were poorer in many socloeconomic attributes such as standard of housing and amount of cash income, in comparison with the random sample controls. They were also less well educated and fewer had attended antenatal or child welfare clinics. The dead children had been breast fed for shorter periods and received fewer protein supplements.

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