Background:  Maternal and infant mortality are highly devastating, yet, in many cases, preventable events for a community. The human development of a country is a strong predictor of maternal and infant mortality, reflecting the importance of socioeconomic factors in determinants of health. Previous research has shown that the Human Development Index (HDI) predicts infant mortality rate (IMR) and the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). Inequality has also been shown to be associated with worse health in certain populations. The main purpose of the present study was to determine the correlation and predictive power of the Inequality Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) as a measure of inequality with the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), Early Neonatal Mortality Rate (ENMR), Late Neonatal Mortality Rate (LNMR), and the Post Neonatal Mortality Rate (PNMR).

Methods and findings:  Data for the present study were downloaded from two sources: infant and maternal mortality data were downloaded from the Global Burden of Disease 2013 Cause of Death Database and the Human Development Index (HDI) and Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) data were downloaded from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Pearson correlation coefficients were estimated, following logarithmic transformations to the data, to examine the relationship between HDI and IHDI with MMR, IMR, ENMR, LNMR, and PNMR. Steiger's Z test for the equality of two dependent correlations was utilized in order to determine whether the HDI or IHDI was more strongly associated with the outcome variables. Lastly, we constructed OLS regression models in order to determine the predictive power of the HDI and IHDI in terms of the MMR, IMR, ENMR, LNMR, and PNMR. Maternal and infant mortality were both strongly and negatively correlated with both HDI and IHDI; however, Steiger's Z test for the equality of two dependent correlations revealed that IHDI was more strongly correlated than HDI with MMR (Z = 4.897, p < 0.001), IMR (Z = 2.524, p = 0.012), ENMR (Z = 2.936, p = 0.003), LNMR (Z = 2.272, p = 0.023), and PNMR (Z = 2.277, p = 0.023). Furthermore, side-by-side OLS regression models revealed that, when IHDI was used as the predictor variable instead of HDI, the R2 value was 0.053 higher for MMR, 0.025 higher for IMR, 0.038 higher for ENMR, 0.029 higher for LNMR, and 0.026 higher for PNMR.

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Conclusions:  Even when both the HDI and the IHDI correlate with the infant and maternal mortality rates, the IHDI is a better predictor for these two health indicators. Therefore, these results add more evidence that inequality is playing an important role in determining the health status of various populations in the world and more efforts should be put into programs to fight inequality.

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Maternal and child mortality are devastating events for any community, which is why children and expectant mothers are priority populations for many public health intervention programs the world over. Maternal mortality is unacceptably high, with an estimated 800 women dying from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications around the world every day and almost all maternal deaths (99%) occur in developing countries, of which more than half occur in sub-Saharan Africa [1]. Sadly, the overwhelming majority of these deaths are needless and readily preventable. With regard to childhood mortality, an estimated 6.3 million children under the age of 5 died in 2013 alone, and like maternal mortality, most of these deaths were preventable [2].

To the extent that the infant and maternal mortality variables were not normally distributed according to Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for normality, transformations were applied to the data in an attempt to achieve normality. A natural log transformation was applied to the MMR, IMR, ENMR, LNMR, and the PNMR variables. Therefore, the regression equation used to model the aforementioned variables took the following form:Further testing with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test revealed that, even after data transformation, the data failed to reach normality. While analysis of histogram outputs revealed that each variable approached normality following transformation, we elected to take supplementary precautions in handling the data. Specifically, correlation coefficients and beta coefficients were estimated with bootstrapped (1,000 resamples) 95 percent bias corrected confidence intervals. We also downloaded polygon feature data for a map of the world [20] and utilized ESRI ArcGIS version 10.0 [21] to project maps with the following layers: MMR, IMR, HDI, and IHDI.

The worldwide MMR in 2013 was 209.1 per 100,000 live births; however, this rate was not equally distributed around the world (Fig 3). The global IMR (under 5 years) in 2013 was 44.0 per 1,000 live births from 2.4 per 1,000 live births in Iceland to 152.5 per 1,000 live births in Guinea-Bissau (Fig 4). Figs 5 and 6 show how the IMR and MMR decrease as human development increases.

Simple OLS regression models showed that IHDI was a better predictor of infant and maternal mortality than HDI. In Table 2, side-by-side regression models are shown for MMR, IMR, ENMR, LNMR, and PNMR with HDI and IHDI as predictor variables. In each case, the variance explained in the dependent variable by the predictor variable was greater for the IHDI. Specifically, when IHDI was used as the predictor variable instead of HDI, the R2 value was 0.053 higher for MMR, 0.025 higher for IMR, 0.038 higher for ENMR, 0.029 higher for LNMR, and 0.026 higher for PNMR.

In the final analysis, the results of the present study supported our hypothesis: that even when both the HDI and the IHDI correlate with the infant and maternal mortality rates, the IHDI is a better predictor for these two health indicators. Pregnant women and children continue to be priority populations for many countries, and while direct intervention programs to address morbidity and mortality issues among these groups are prudent, social programs that address inequalities in education, income, access to healthcare resources and related factors are imperative and of equal importance in reducing mortality among these populations in the medium to long term especially, but also in the short term.

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