BIBLIOGRAPHIC INPUT SHEET TEMPORARY Patterns of mortality ...

258 Patternsof Mortality in Childhood
TABLE 156. Breast Feeding for One Month or Fia. 129. Breast Feeding for One Month or
Longer of Infants, Dying in First Year of Lifeb in Longer of Infants Dying in Postneonatal Period in
13 Latin American Projects. 13 Latin American Projects.
PER CENT
Breat fed
Infants one month 0 20 40 60 o too
Project dying in or longer r -,
flrstIear - I
No. % CAI .A..
Total............. ........... 12.106 6,353 52.5 1E6SO.,Sl. UADOI
Ul n POVUC,
ARGENTINA
Cll
Chaco Province .............. 806 603 74.8 1OI4IUl0n,
San Juan Provinct ........ 928 558 60.1 CwIt[ ctI"
BOLIVIA project .............. 1,088 911 83.7 IIU{=
BRAZIL *U iiO
P
R ecife ..................... . 1,414 379 26.8
''
Ribeirfto Pr/to ............... 383 181 47.3 1 1PIOJiCI
SAo Paulo .................. . 1.508 530 35.5 $*0PAULO
CHILE project ................ 087 543 55.0 W1
COLOMLIA
Cal ........................ 433 244 56.4
Cartagena................... 352 283 81.8
Medellin ................... . 388 203 52.3
EL SALVADOR project ........ 1,771 072 37.9 Province, and Cartagena), but even in these
JAMAICA
the percentages of those breast fed for that
Hingston-St. Andrew ......... 541 395 73.0
MEXICO length of time were only 50.6, 42.7, and 38.7,
Monterrey .................. 1.507 840 55.7 respectively. In four projects (Medellin,
In families in which home ,nterviews were conducted and
Information
b
was provided.
Excluding neonatal deaths.
TABLE
Longer of
157.
Infants,
Breast
Dying
Feeding
at 6-11
for Six
Months
Months
of Age
or
in 13 Latin American Projects.
projects (Bolivia, Cartagena, Chaco Prov-
Breast fed
ince, and Kingston-St. Andrew). In three Infants 6 months
projects (El Salvador, Sho Paulo, and Re- Pro1ct dyi611 rne
months
cife) it was less than 40 per cent, while in No. %
the other six it varied from 47.3 to 60.1 per Total.........................4,115 760 18.4
cent. Thodgh the data for El Salvador are
presented for the project as a whole, differ-
ARGENTINA
ences between the areas were noted; in the
Chaco Province ..............
San Juan Province ...........
279
243
119
32
42.7
13.2
city of San Salvador only 34.1 per cent of BOLIVIA project .............. 451 228 50.6
BRAZIL
deceased infants had been breast fed for at Recie ...................... 605 7 1.4
least a month, while in the rural municipios Ribeirfto Prto ............... . 0 18 16.2
the proportion was higher-nearly half
Sio Paulo .................. .
CHILE project ................
338
229
14
13
4.1
5.7
(49.7 per cent). COLOMBIA
Cal ........................ 195 25 12.8
Since six months is the minimum period Cartagena................... 181 70 38.7
recommended for breast feeding, data are Medellin .................... 171 15 8.8
EL SALVADOR project ........ 717 80 12.0
provided also for infants dying at 6-11 JAMAICA
months of age who had been breast fed for MEXICO Andrew.......... 253 32 12.6
at least six months (Table 157 and Figure Monterrey .................. 454 102 22.5
130). The experience was relatively favorable
in only ablein three
projects prject nly (Bolivia, (Bliva, Chaco Caco aIn
andinformation
families inwhich was provided. home interviews were conducted