DaVanzo J
Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA 90406-2138.
Demography. 1988 Nov;25(4):581-95.
Household data from Malaysia are used to assess the roles of a number of mortality correlates in explaining the inverse relationship between the infant mortality rate (IMR) and socioeconomic development. Increases in mothers' education and improvements in water and sanitation are the most important household-level changes that accompany regional and temporal development and contribute to the inverse relationship between the IMR and development. One concomitant of development--reduced reduced breastfeeding--has kept the relationship from being even stronger. Continued prevalence of extended breastfeeding in the poorer states of Peninsular Malaysia and a narrowing of educational and sanitation differentials helped close the IMR gap between the richer and the poorer states.
马来西亚的家庭数据被用于评估一系列死亡率相关因素在解释婴儿死亡率（IMR）与社会经济发展之间反比关系时所起的作用。母亲教育程度的提高以及水和卫生条件的改善是伴随区域和时间发展出现的最重要的家庭层面变化，并且促成了IMR与发展之间的反比关系。发展带来的一个附带结果——母乳喂养减少——使得这种关系没有变得更强。马来西亚半岛较贫困州持续普遍存在的延长母乳喂养以及教育和卫生差距的缩小，有助于缩小较富裕州和较贫困州之间的IMR差距。
