Abstract

ANDRADA, Marcos Javier; TORRES, Víctor Eduardo  and  BERTONE, Carola Leticia. Infant mortality according to maternal educational status in Northeastern Argentina in 2010. Folia [online]. 2022, n.44, pp.57-74. ISSN 0325-8238.  http://dx.doi.org/10.30972/fhn.0445634.

The purpose of this work is to recognize the variations in the infant mortality rate according to maternal educational level in all four Argentine Northeast (NEA, for its Spanish acronym) provinces. It is aimed at setting a precedent for eventual monitoring of health inequities among subpopulations defined by social conditions. The Brass method is employed by resorting to the 2010 Argentine Population Census data. There are variations in the infant mortality rate in the aforementioned region. On the one hand, the highest infant mortality rate is seen in Formosa, where there are also the largest inequalities among mothers according to their educational level. Children whose mothers have the lowest educational level are up to three times more likely to die than those whose mothers have the highest educational level. Children whose mothers have medium educational level are twice more likely to die than those whose mothers have the highest educational level. On the other hand, the situation in Misiones is quite the opposite. There is the lowest infant mortality rate and there are not many inequalities among mothers according to their education level.

Keywords : Infant Mortality; Maternal Educational Status; Indirect Estimation Technique.

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