Open AccessChanges in children’s and adolescents’ mortality in Estonia during the last century
Author(s) -
EneMargit Tiit
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
papers on anthropology/papers on anthropology.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1736-7646
pISSN - 1406-0140
DOI - 10.12697/poa.2019.28.1.11
Subject(s) - demography , infant mortality , politics , period (music) , mortality rate , child mortality , history , geography , political science , population , sociology , physics , law , acoustics
The problem of infant mortality arose in the discussion on risks connected with new-borns’ vaccination. When we compare infant mortality about ninety years ago and nowadays, then it is easy to see that children’s mortality has decreased enormously. But this process has not been uniform during the whole 90-year period: we can see the sub-periods of rapid progress and also sub-periods of stagnation. Obviously, some social and political factors have an impact here, but the mechanism of this influence is not clear.