Comprehensive Assessment of Risk Factors of Cause-Specific Infant Deaths in Japan

Public attention is given to infants with socially high risks of child abuse and neglect, while clinical attention is provided to infants with a biologically high risk of diseases. However, few studies have systematically evaluated how biological or social factors cross over and affect cause-specific infant mortality.We linked birth data with death data from the Japanese national vital statistics database for all infants born from 2003-2010....