Open AccessDecomposing socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran
Author(s) -
Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor,
Eddy van Doorslaer,
Niko Speybroeck,
Mohsen Naghavi,
Kazem Mohammad,
Reza Majdzadeh,
Bahram Delavar,
Hamidreza Jamshidi,
Jeanette Vega
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyl164
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , infant mortality , inequality , sanitation , social inequality , population , environmental health , socioeconomics , medicine , demography , geography , economics , sociology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , pathology
Although measuring socioeconomic inequality in population health indicators like infant mortality is important, more interesting for policy purposes is to try to explain infant mortality inequality. The objective of this paper is to quantify for the first time the determinants' contributions of socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran.
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