Education leads to decreased infant mortality

Low birth weight is one of the strongest predictors of infant mortality.

All the industrialized countries reported declines in infant, child and maternal mortality.

Midwives, trained traditional birth attendants and staff nurses have helped to significantly reduce the maternal mortality rate.

Table 5 shows the trends in reducing the following demographic indicators between the 1970s and the 1990s infant mortality rate (IMR), child (under five) mortality rate (CMR), maternal mortality rate (MMR), crude death rate (CDR), and TFR.

The Committee welcomes the fact that the child mortality rate has steadily decreased during the last reporting periods.

193. As a consequence of the declining IMRs, life expectancy at birth has risen rapidly.

Prenatal mortality decreased considerably in 1992 2001, whereas most of it was due to the drop in neo natal deaths.

You can clearly see the relation with falling child mortality and decreasing family size, even within Africa.

What I want you to do now is to see with your own eyes the relation between fall in child mortality and decrease in family size.

Latest figures indicate a further drop in IMR and U5MR, to 38 and 46 per 1,000 live births, respectively.

As a result of such neglect of the development of human resources, the last few years had witnessed a drastic decrease in life expectancy and a rise in infant mortality.

In reality, there has been a marked decline in child development since 1995, with a disquieting rise in infant mortality, stunting and malnutrition.

And a very important piece of research came out on Friday from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle showing that almost 50 percent of the fall in child mortality can be attributed to female education.

Infant Mortality

The Syrian Arab Republic has achieved substantial progress in reducing both child and infant mortality rates.

The biggest decline of mortality, particularly child mortality, was registered in the first 5 years following National Independence (1975 1980) as result of improvements in health, education and habitation conditions.

Some of the effects of malnutrition during pregnancy were immediately apparent in higher rates of stillbirths, birth defects, low birth weights and infant mortality.

Cancer currently accounts for 31 per cent of male deaths and 26 per cent of female deaths.

IMR and the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) remain unchanged since 1997.

Infant Mortality Rates

Maternal mortality ratio

Maternal deaths

J. Child mortality

There were no deaths.

C. Maternal mortality

Emphasis on health services in the field helped, for example, to ensure the eradication of smallpox, the widespread immunization of children, and a dramatic cut in child death rates worldwide.

Indigenous deaths accounted for 9.3 per cent of the 75 deaths where indigenous status was known.

So that's a factor of two reduction of the childhood death rate.

Studies show that unsafe abortions account for nearly one third of maternal deaths in Bolivia, which has among the highest rates of maternal mortality in Latin America.

64. To improve the health status of infants and children, to reduce the incidence of low birth weight and to lower infant and child mortality in line with the commitment of Governments made at the World Summit for Children.

On a question about the decrease of maternal and child mortality rates among the Aboriginal population, the representative stressed that the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had significantly improved in the past two decades.

And sustained government investment in public health is reflected in steady improvement in India s infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, and life expectancy.

Thus the infant mortality rate of the male child was better in urban. That of the female child was better in rural areas.

70. In 1991, there were no maternal deaths in the Territory and only two infant deaths.

Our boys' deaths galvanize.

Paragraph 4 Infant mortality

B. Infant and child mortality

It's infant mortality.

(2) Contributing to the Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Kenya

THE_47th Alarabiya says limited deaths have happened in Riyadh.

In some cases, deaths were caused accidentally.

These are the recent AlDS deaths in our community.

Neonatal mortality played a role in the stagnation or aggravation of the infant and under five mortality rates among Palestinian children.

His country had recently introduced compulsory education, health services and vaccination campaigns across the entire country, resulting in marked decreases in infant and maternal mortality and an increase in life expectancy to 72 years.