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Community child health, public health, and epidemiology
Hospital accessibility and infant death risk
  1. T J B Dummer1,
  2. L Parker2
  1. 1School of Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Henry Cotton Campus, 15–21 Webster Street, Liverpool L3 2ET, UK
  2. 2Paediatric and Lifecourse Epidemiology Group, School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Sir James Spence Institute of Child Health, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle NE1 4LP, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr T Dummer
    School of Social Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Henry Cotton Campus, 15–21 Webster Street, Liverpool L3 2ET, UK; t.dummerlivjm.ac.uk

Abstract

This study of all 4889 infant deaths within the cohort of all 287 993 births in Cumbria, northwest England (1950–93), found no evidence of an increased risk of infant death with greater travel time to hospitals.

  • infant death
  • hospital accessibility
  • GIS
  • epidemiology

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2003.030924

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