Estimação e análise dos fatores determinantes da redução da taxa de mortalidade infantil no Brasi

Abstract

This study sought to measure and analyze the determinants of reducing the infant mortality rate - IMR - in Brazil, in the period 2001-2011. For this purpose, we use the theoretical approach and the data method used by Sousa and Leite Filho (2008). The adopted empirical method allows at least two advances in relation to the others: (i) admits the unobservable effect of explanatory variables at different times; (Ii) takes into account two dimensions: time and space. A third advance in this analysis is the study period - from 2001 to 2011, because literature has not yet made inferences in these years, then, will have news contributions on the dynamics of IMR in Brazil. The database used is from secondary sources, namely: DATASUS, IPEADATA and PNADs. The results corroborate the literature to ratify the expansion of the Family Health Program (PSF) changes the behavior of the infant mortality rate, an improvement in per capita income and access to sanitation are also factors that reduce IMR and finally, that income inequality causes an adverse effect.