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288 Patternsof Mortality in Childhood
to perinatal causes were also high (over
70.0), while for those with no education they
were much lower. These percentages of nconatal
deaths due to perinatal causes are
given below for mothers in these two groups
in 10 projects:
Secondary or
university No
education education
Argentina
Chaco Province 89.2 51.3
San Juan Province 74.5 55.4
Brazil
Recife 73.8 62.7
Chile project 71.2 44A
Colombia
Cali 82.9 56.7
Cartagena 85.0 51.7
Medellin 81.7 76.2
El Salvador project 73.3 48.8
Jamaica
Kingston-St. Andrew 76.4 70.0
Mexico
Monterrey 70.2 51.7
In seven of the 10 projects the percentages
for mothers with no education were less than
60. While they were high in Medellin and
Kingston-St. Andrew, in those projects the
numbers of mothers with no education were
small (21 and 10, respectively).
On the other hand, in the Bolivia and
Sflo Paulo projects among children of mothers
with secondary or university education
the proportions of neonatal deaths due to
perinatal causes were lower (64.3 and 63.7)
than in the 10 projects listed above. In these
two projects the percentages for mothers
without education were lower (44.5 and
55.4) than for those with the better education.
In the Ribeir~o Pr6to project this relationship
was not found.
In Sherbrooke the percentage of neonatal
deaths due to certain perinatal causes was
67.4 for mothers with secondary or university
education; as was seen in Chapter X,
congenital anomalies were responsible for a
high proportion of the neonatal deaths
(28.7), which accounted in part for the
lower percentage of deaths in that age
group due to perinatal causes. In only three
have less
neonatal deaths did the mothers
than three years' schooling, and so this division
by education is not useful in that
project. The high l)roportions of neonatal
deaths due to perinatal causes for mothers
of higher educational levels is, of course,
evidence of the low proportions due to infectious
diseases.
In regard to infectious diseases, the relationship
to education of mother in the case
of neonatal deaths was the reverse of that
observed for perinatal causes. Among mothers
with no education, more than 20 per
cent of neonatal deaths were due to infectious
diseases in six projects. These percentages,
along with those for mothers with
secondary or university education, were as
follows:
Secondary or
university No
education education
Argentina
Chaco Province 2.7 22.7
Brazil
Recife 14.3 21.9
Sfo Paulo 17.1 27.6
Colombia
Cartagena 2.5 37.9
El Salvador project 11.9 32.3
Mexico
Monterrey 13.0 26.2
Mothers lacking education had higher
proportions of their infants die in the neonatal
period from infectious diseases than
did mothers with secondary or university
education. It can be seen, therefore, that
educational level serves as a useful indicator