Social inequalities in perinatal and infant mortality in the northern region of Belgium (the Flanders)

Abstract

Does education, profession and actual employment of both parents, independently operates discrimination in the outcome of pregnancy up to one year? Results: Maternal education is the only significant and independent determinant of foetal as well as neonatal and foeto-infantile mortality. Results: The status of the mother is by far more important than that of the father in determining the outcome of pregnancy.