INFANT MORTALITY RATE IN FILABAVI: 10 YEARS FOLLOW UP Tran Kim Thanh _ Filabavi

Contents Background Objective Method Result Conclusion

Background Mortality is an important health indicator and essential information for developing public health action. Particularly the Infant Mortality Rate is of great interest both in its own right and as an important input in life expectancy estimation Many studies have shown a close relationship between IMR with economic conditions, mother's educational level and ability to access health services. This study is a preliminary report on the situation of infant mortality over 10 years follows up

Objective To describe Infant mortality rate during 1999 – 2009 To examine the associations between infant mortality patterns and socio-economics status (SES), mother’s education, birth weight in Bavi district

Method Object: all children under one year-old was immigrated or new born in the field Period time: Venue study: Bavi district Method of collecting information: interview by questionnaire

Method Longitudinal follow-up study in Bavi district

Variable Household: income: wealth index quintile was used Mother: – Age at the delivery – Education – Pregnant period: birth date – the first day of last Child – Sex: male or female – Birth weight – Death

Result There are 9639 children under 1 year during the period (from 1999 to 2009). The total person year we followed-up is deaths have occurred in FilaBavi during with 71 boys and 39 girls under the age of one year

Mortality rate by age group and sex

Infant mortality rate by quintile Wealth quintile Deaths P-YRate Deaths PYRate Deaths PYRate Deaths PYRate Deaths PYRate Lowest Second Third High Highest

Infant mortality rate by quintile

IMR by sex and year IMR IMR IMR Male Female1299 Total161311

IMR by birth weight Low birth weight (BW < 2500g) Normal birth weight (BW>2500g) Death5654 Person year Mortality rate per

IMR by birth weight

IMR by mother’s education

Infant mortality rate by pregnant time DeathsPerson year RateCI 95% Premature delivery Delivery with enough time – 19.09

IMR by mother’s age group

Conclusion IMR is lower in highest wealth group The child with low birth weight has higher mortality risk than child with normal birth weight IMR relates mother’s education. IMR is high among mother with illiteracy

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