Modeling the Relationship Between Babies? Mortality and Prosperity Using Fully Latent Models

摘要

The researchers examined the relationship between babies? mortality and prosperity. The objective is to investigate the effect of prosperity factor which is constructed from three indicators: class 1, 2 and 3 of occupation on mortality factor which is also constructed from three indicators: infant, neonatal and stillbirth mortality ratio. The importance of the goal is followed from what Weeks stated: there are few things in the world more frightening and awesome than the responsibility for a newborn child-fragile and completely dependent on others for survival. Many methods have been used such as path analysis and more methods have been developed such as Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) which is the interested in this study. SEM is widely used in the social and behavioral sciences. We concluded that prosperity has significant effect on mortality. The data is collected from a census of 81 districts in Malaysia. This study was composed for a number of path-diagrams to create the management changing and health care especially for the babies in Malaysia or in all spots of the world.