BIBLIOGRAPHIC INPUT SHEET TEMPORARY Patterns of mortality ...

82 Patternsof Mortality in Childhood
TALe 33. Immaturity and Nutritional Deficiency as Underlying or Associated Cause of Infant Deaths'
in 24 Areas of 15 Projects.
Project and are& Total Immaturity or
infant
deaths
nutritional
deficiency
Underlying or associated cause
Immaturity
Nutritional
deficiency
No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate No. Rate
ARGENTINA
Chaco Province
Resistencia ...................... 747 76.2 461 47.0 191 19.5 270 27.6
Rural departments ............... 663 85.0 329 42.2 114 14.6 215 27.6
San Juan Province
San Juan (city) .................. 295 50.7 163 28.0 108 18.6 55 9.5
Suburban departments ............ 696 87.9 424 53.5 237 29.9 187 23.6
Rural departments ............... 909 94.5 518 53.8 249 25.9 269 28.0
BOLIVIA
La Paz ........................ 2,685 73.0 1,221 33.2 475 12.9 746 20.3
Viacha ........................ 105 123.5 42 49.4 17 20.0 25 29.4
BRAZIL
Recife ............................ 2,773 91.2 1,814 59.7 734 24.1 1,080 35.5
Ribeirio Preto
Riheirio Preto (city) ............. 400 43.0 280 30.1 164 17.6 116 12.5
Franca ......................... 364 71.5 239 47.0 120 23.6 119 23.4
Communities .................... 195 50.8 129 33.6 65 16.9 64 16.7
S o Paulo ......................... 3,788 65.1 2,286 39.3 1,224 21.0 1,062 18.3
CANADA
Sherbrooke ........................ 310 18.3 173 10.2 167 9.8 6 0.4
CHILE
Santiago ........................ 2,207 54.9 1,286 32.0 792 19.7 494 12.3
Conunas........................ 197 57.9 106 31.2 40 11.8 66 19.4
COLOMBIA
Cali .............................. 1,153 54.6 627 29.7 321 15.2 306 14.5
Cartagena ........................ 856 47.8 532 29.7 254 14.2 278 15.5
Medellfn .......................... 924 47.6 573 29.5 265 13.7 308 15.9
EL SALVADOR
San Salvador .................. .2,094 81.7 1,066 41.6 469 18.3 597 23.3
Rural inunicipios................ 048 120.0 284 52.6 86 15.9 198 36.7
JAMAICA
Kingston-St. Andrew .............. 1,589 38.8 998 24.4 755 18.4 243 5.9
MEXICO
Monterrey ........................ 3,220 60.7 1,728 32.6 725 13.7 1,003 18.9
UNITED STATES
San Francisco ................... 209 18.5 122 10.8 115 10.2 7 0.6
California, suburban ............. 575 17.2 352 10.5 338 10.1 14 0.4
8 With rates per 1,000 live births.
areas the infant deaths with nutritional proportions of infant deaths have this imdeficiency
as an underlying or associated portant evidence of insufficient growth and
cause varied from 5.9 per 1,000 live births development. In fact, in nine areas the
in Kingston-St. Andrew to high rates of number of infant deaths with these condi­
35.5 in Recife and 36.7 in the rural muni- tions as a cause was at least 40 per 1,000
cipios of El Salvador.
live births. In Recife the rate was exceed-
If the deaths from these two causes are ingly high-59.7 per 1,000. These high rates
combined (immaturity and nutritional defi- point clearly to the need for preventive
ciency) it can be seen that relatively high measures to combat these serious conditions.