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In terms of comparing how countries do at the basics it would probably make sense to only compare the infant mortality for babies that were carried to the full
by connicpu 4y ago
In terms of comparing how countries do at the basics it would probably make sense to only compare the infant mortality for babies that were carried to the full term, or within a few days at least. I'm not sure if there's global data on that specifically, but it would be interesting to see and compare.
- kuhewa 4y agoThe gestation age threshold doesn't really matter across Europe, but a birthweight threshold does somewhat. [1,2] The US doesn't look as bad for infant mortality when only comparing only births at 28 weeks or later, 2nd to last to Denmark in this [3] comparison of Canada, US and the Nordic countries rather than being almost twice as high as the rest if using 22wks as a threshold. However, my understanding is the US has higher pre-term birth rates which is certainly a confounding factor so the difference might not only be due to birth registration differences. [1] https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1471-0528.14273 https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1471-... [2] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0064869 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... [3] https://bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12887-015-0430-8/tables/9 https://bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12887...