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Statistical Analysis Of Infant Mortality Rate
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1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS
1.7.1 Infant mortality
This refers to death of children under the age of one year.
1.7.2 Infant mortality rate
This is the total number of death of children under the age of one year for every 1000 live birth during the year.
1.7.3 Death
This is the permanent disappearance of all evidence of life after birth had taken place.
1.7.4 Neo-natal death
This is the death that occurred to children under four weeks of age or one month of age.
1.7.5 Post neo-natal death
This is the death that occurred to children at four weeks of age or one month to eleven month of age.
1.7.6 Foetal death
This
is the death that occurred to complete expulsion or extraction from its
mother a product of conception irrespective of the duration of the
pregnancy.
1.7.7 Birth rate
This is the number of birth per thousand of the population for a given year.
1.7.8 Live birth
This
is the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother a product of
conception irrespective of the duration of the pregnancy which after
such separation, breath or show any other evidence of live such as
beating of the heart.
1.7.9 Still birth
This is a complete
extraction from its mother without any evidence of live such as heart
beats, movement of the voluntary muscles or pulsation of the umbilical
cord.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study is to carry out statistical analysis of infant mortality rate in Kogi state from the period of 2006 – 2015. And computation was made by using the analysis from infant death and life birth in General Hospital Okene, Local Government Area, Kogi State. The analysis made it possible to know that there is a perfect negative correlation between infant death and life birth respectively. ... Continue reading---
