Neonatal and postneonatal mortality as proxies for cause of death: evidence from ethnic and longitudinal comparisons

In: Social science quarterly, Volume 73, Issue Sep 92

Abstract

Expands on the question of the cause of death through use of a 5-year data set of consistently coded infant death records, which also allows comparison of Mexican American and Anglo infants. Timing is generally not a valid proxy of cause structure, but important variation over time and by ethnicity sheds additional light on mortality transition differentials. (Abstract amended)