Association of socioeconomic disadvantage and ethnicity with perinatal neonatal, and infant mortality in Slovakia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F24%3A73628052" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/24:73628052 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-024-18645-0" target="_blank" >https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-024-18645-0</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18645-0" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12889-024-18645-0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Association of socioeconomic disadvantage and ethnicity with perinatal neonatal, and infant mortality in Slovakia
Original language description
Background Infant mortality rates are reliable indices of the child and general population health status and health care delivery. The most critical factors affecting infant mortality are socioeconomic status and ethnicity. The aim of this study was to assess the association between socioeconomic disadvantage, ethnicity, and perinatal, neonatal, and infant mortality in Slovakia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods The associations between socioeconomic disadvantage (educational level, long-term unemployment rate), ethnicity (the proportion of the Roma population) and mortality (perinatal, neonatal, and infant) in the period 2017-2022 were explored, using linear regression models.Results The higher proportion of people with only elementary education and long-term unemployed, as well as the higher proportion of the Roma population, increases mortality rates. The proportion of the Roma population had the most significant impact on mortality in the selected period between 2017 and 2022, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2022).Conclusions Life in segregated Roma settlements is connected with the accumulation of socioeconomic disadvantage. Persistent inequities between Roma and the majority population in Slovakia exposed by mortality rates in children point to the vulnerabilities and exposures which should be adequately addressed by health and social policies.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30304 - Public and environmental health
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
BMC PUBLIC HEALTH
ISSN
1471-2458
e-ISSN
1471-2458
Volume of the periodical
24
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
001207765700006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85191236334