Open AccessINCOME AND INFANT MORTALITY
Author(s) -
Julia C. Lathrop
Publication year - 1919
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.9.4.270
Subject(s) - infant mortality , environmental health , wage , medicine , demography , demographic economics , economics , labour economics , sociology , population
Miss Lathrop, who is a leader in the country-wide movement to save the babies, tells us in this article how an insufficient wage, a mother who is obliged to labor, and a community that is careless about its housing, constitute three very important factors to the infant mortality.