Talk:Infant mortality

This is a very rough first draft of original work that will require a major amount of work. Nancy Sculerati 23:46, 27 May 2007 (CDT)

cross-country comparisons

Before much is done regarding cross-country comparisons of infant mortality rates, it would be useful to have a section on the difficulties of making good comparisons between countries with low infant mortality rates because of the way deaths of very premature babies are counted, and in which babies are counted as stillbirths in which countries. Obviously, a difference in rates of 7 per thousand to 70 per thousand indicates a real difference in conditions, but the difference between countries with an infant mortailty rate of 5 vs 7 per thousand may be purely a statistical artifact. Anthony Argyriou 15:27, 28 May 2007 (CDT)