Decreasing trends of neonatal and infant mortality rates in Korea: Compared with Japan, USA, and OECD nations

Journal of Korean Medical Science

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1115-1123

  Chang, Ji Young ^a   Lee, Kyung Suk ^a   Hahn, Won Ho ^a   Chung, Sung Hoon ^b   Choi, Yong Sung ^b   Shim, Kye Shik ^a   Bae, Chong Woo ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Data collection; Epidemiologic methods; Epidemiology; Infant mortality; Japan; Korea; Mortality; Neonatal mortality; OECD; Public health; United States; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; JAPAN; NEWBORN; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SOUTH KOREA; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052819655     PISSN: 10118934     EISSN: 15986357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2011.26.9.1115     Document Type: Review

References (47)

1. Park CB, Park BT. Infant mortality rate: survey of recent fertility in Korea. Seoul: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 1981, p 11-25.
2. Han YJ, Doh SR, Seo K, Park JH, Lee SU. Infant mortality level and characteristics in 1996. Seoul: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, 1998, p 62-4.
3. Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare. Infant mortality survey report in 1996. Seoul: Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, 1999, p 31-3.
4. Han SH, Kim IS. Recent trends of infant death rates and its determinants in Korea. Korean J Epidemiol 1990; 12: 57-89.
5. UN, UN data, Infant mortality rate. Available at http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?q=infant+mortality&d=PopDiv&f=variableID%3a77 [accessed on 15 July 2011].
6. Han YJ, Doh SR, Lee SU, Lee HB, Lee MI. Infant mortality survey report in 1993. Seoul: Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 1997, p 59-60.
7. Han YJ, Doh SR, Lee SU, Lee HB, Lee MI. Infant mortality level and characteristics. Seoul: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 1996, p 70-4.
8. Han YJ, Lee SU, Chang YS, Kim DJ, Lee SU. Infant mortality level and characteristics of perinatal death in 1999. Seoul: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 2002, p 39-43.
9. Han YJ, Seo K, Lee SU, Lee SU, Shin CW. Infant and maternal death survey report in 2002-2003. Seoul: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2005, p 67-70.
10. Han YJ, Choi JS, Seo K, Lee SU, Oh HC, Kim NO, Hong JS, Shin SM, Lee NH. Infant and maternal death survey report in 2005-2006. Seoul: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Korean Medical Record Association, Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2008, p 77-92.
11. Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare. Infant mortality survey report in 1996. Seoul: Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, 1999, p 33-7.
12. Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare. Infant mortality survey report in 1999. Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare 1999 (Infant mortality level and characteristics of perinatal death in 1999). Seoul: Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2002, p 39-43.
13. Choi JS, Seo K, Lee NH, Lee SU, Shin CW, Bu YK. Infant and maternal death survey report in 2007-2008. Seoul: Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Korean Medical Record Association, Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2010, p 89-90.
14. Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare. Yearbook of heath, welfare and family statistics in 2007. Seoul: Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2007, p 56.
15. Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare. Yearbook of heath, welfare and family statistics. Seoul: Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare in 2009, 2009, p 20.
16. Statistics Korea. Statistical report of causes of death in Korea in 2009. Available at http://kostat.go.kr/wnsearch/search.jsp [accessed on 15 July 2011].
17. Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare. OECD statistics in 2009. Seoul: Korea Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2009, p 96.
18. OECD. OECD Health Data 2010, Infant mortality. Available at http://www.oecd.org/document/0,3746,en_2649_201185_46462759_1_1_1_1,00.html, and http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/4/36/46796773.pdf [accessed on 15 July 2011].
19. WHO. Health statistics and health information systems, infant mortality. Available at http://www.who.int/healthinfo/morttables/en/index.html [accessed on 15 July 2011].
20. WHO. WHO mortality database, infant death. Available at http://apps.who.int/whosis/database/mort/table2.cfm [accessed on 15 July 2011].
21. Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Statistics, infant mortality rate. Available at http://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/database/db-hw/report/3.html [accessed on 15 July 2011].
22. Index Mundi. United States infant mortality rate. Index Mundi. Available at http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/infant_mortality_rate.html [accessed on 15 July 2011].
23. Ministry of Health and Welfare. Health care and service for newborn, infant and mother: 2011. Seoul: Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2011, p 3-9.
24. Statistics Korea. Change of statistical method for infant and mother's death survey in Korea. Available at http://kostat.go.kr/wnsearch/search.jsp [accessed on 15 July 2011].
25. Hahn WH, Chang JY, Chang YS, Shim KS, Bae CW. Recent trends in neonatal mortality in very low birth weight Korean infants: in comparison with Japan and the USA. J Korean Med Sci 2011; 26: 467-73.
26. Hwang NM. Health care and service system for newborn and infant in other nations. Proceeding of the 57th annual spring meeting of the Korean pediatric Society. 2007, p 19-27.
27. Neonatal Research Network, Japan. Available at http://nrn.shiga-med.ac.jp/ [accessed on 15 July 2011].
28. Perinatal Care Center Network, Japan. Available at http://plaza.umin.ac.jp/nrndata/syukei.htm [accessed on 15 July 2011].
29. Kusuda S, Fujimura M, Sakuma I, Aotani H, Kabe K, Itani Y, Ichiba H, Matsunami K, Nishida H. Morbidity and mortality of infants with very low birth weight in Japan: center variation. Pediatrics 2006; 118: e1130-8.
30. Itabashi K, Horiuchi T, Kusuda S, Kabe K, Itani Y, Nakamura T, Fujimura M, Matsuo M. Mortality rates for extremely low birth weight infants born in Japan in 2005. Pediatrics 2009; 123: 445-50.
31. Bae CW. Bench-marking of Japanese perinatal center system for improving maternal and neonatal outcome in Korea. Korean J Perinatol 2010; 21: 129-39.
32. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Neonatal Research Network. Available at https://neonatal.rti.org/ [accessed on June 2011].
33. Vermont Oxford Network. Available at http://www.vtoxford.org/ [accessed on June 2011].
34. Payne NR, Finkelstein MJ, Liu M, Kaempf JW, Sharek PJ, Olsen S. NICU practices and outcomes associated with 9 years of quality improvement collaboratives. Pediatrics 2010; 125: 437-46.
35. Fanaroff AA, Stoll BJ, Wright LL, Carlo WA, Ehrenkranz RA, Stark AR, Bauer CR, Donovan EF, Korones SB, Laptook AR, Lemons JA, Oh W, Papile LA, Shankaran S, Stevenson DK, Tyson JE. Trends in neonatal morbidity and mortality for very low birthweight infants. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2007; 196: 147.
36. Stoll BJ, Hansen NI, Bell EF, Shankaran S, Laptook AR, Walsh MC, Hale EC, Newman NS, Schibler K, Carlo WA, Kennedy KA, Poindexter BB, Finer NN, Ehrenkranz RA, Duara S, Sánchez PJ, O'Shea TM, Goldberg RN, Van Meurs KP, Faix RG, Phelps DL, Frantz ID 3rd, Watterberg KL, Saha S, Das A, Higgins RD. Neonatal outcomes of extremely preterm infants from the NICHD Neonatal Research Network. Pediatrics 2010; 126: 443-56.
37. Mathews TJ, Miniño AM, Osterman MJ, Strobino DM, Guyer B. Annual summary of vital statistics: 2008. Pediatrics 2011; 127: 146-57.
38. MacDorman MF, Mathews TJ. Recent trends in infant mortality in the United States. NCHS Data Brief 2008; (9): 1-8.
39. Mathews TJ, MacDorman MF, Division of Vital Statistics. Infant mortality statistics from the 2007 period linked birth/infant death data set. Natl Vital Stat Rep 2011; 59: 1-47.
40. Anderson GF, Squires DA. Measuring the U.S. health care system: a cross-national comparison. Issue Brief (Commonw Fund) 2010; 90: 1-10.
41. Cohen RA, Martinez ME. Health insurance coverage: early release of estimates from the National Health Interview Survey. National Center for Health Statistics. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis.htm [accessed on 15 July 2011].
42. Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA or Public Law 111-3). The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Available at https://www.cms.gov/chipra/ [accessed on 15 July 2011].
43. Statistics Korea. Birth statistics in Korea in 2010. Available at http://kostat.go.kr/wnsearch/search.jsp [accessed on 15 July 2011].
44. Moon JY, Hahn WH, Shim KS, Chang JY, Bae CW. Changes of maternal age distribution in live births and incidence of low birth weight infants in advanced maternal age group in Korea. Korean J Perinatol 2011; 22: 30-6.
45. Choi SH, Park YS, Shim KS, Choi YS, Chang JY, Hahn WH, Bae CW. Recent trends in the incidence of multiple births and its consequences on perinatal problems in Korea. J Korean Med Sci 2010; 25: 1191-6.
46. Park YS, Choi SH, Shim KS, Chang JY, Hahn WH, Choi YS, Bae CW. Multiple births conceived by assisted reproductive technology in Korea. Korean J Pediatr 2010; 53: 880-5.
47. Kim HY, Sun BY, Kim EY, Jung JH. Unwed mother's life world and policy agenda. Korean Women's Development Institute, 2009, p 39-40.