Infant Mortality
An Infant Mortality is a death of a child under the age of 1.
- Context:
- It can be counted by an Infant Mortality Rate.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Child Mortality, for children under the age of 5.
- See: Neonatal Infection, Immunization, Infectious Diseases.
References
2018
- (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/infant_mortality Retrieved:2018-7-29.
- Infant mortality is the death of young children under the age of 1. This death toll is measured by the infant mortality rate (IMR), which is the number of deaths of children under one year of age per 1000 live births. The under-five mortality rate is also an important statistic, considering the infant mortality rate focuses only on children under one year of age.
Premature birth is the biggest contributor to the IMR.[1] Other leading causes of infant mortality are birth asphyxia, pneumonia, congenial malformations, term birth complications such as abnormal presentation of the foetus umbilical cord prolapse, or prolonged labor,[2] neonatal infection, diarrhea, malaria, measles and malnutrition.[3] One of the most common preventable causes of infant mortality is smoking during pregnancy.[4] Many factors contribute to infant mortality, such as the mother's level of education, environmental conditions, and political and medical infrastructure.[5] Improving sanitation, access to clean drinking water, immunization against infectious diseases, and other public health measures can help reduce high rates of infant mortality.
Child mortality is the death of a child before the child's fifth birthday, measured as the under-5 child mortality rate (U5MR). National statistics sometimes group these two mortality rates together. Globally, 9.2 million children die each year before their fifth birthday; more than 60% of these deaths are seen as being avoidable with low-cost measures such as continuous breast-feeding, vaccinations and improved nutrition.
Infant mortality rate was an indicator used to monitor progress towards the Fourth Goal of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations for the year 2015. It is now a target in the Sustainable Development Goals for Goal Number 3 ("Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages").
Throughout the world, infant mortality rate (IMR) fluctuates drastically, and according to Biotechnology and Health Sciences, education and life expectancy in the country is the leading indicator of IMR. This study was conducted across 135 countries over the course of 11 years with Africa having the highest infant mortality rate of any other region studied with 68 deaths per 1,000 live births.
- Infant mortality is the death of young children under the age of 1. This death toll is measured by the infant mortality rate (IMR), which is the number of deaths of children under one year of age per 1000 live births. The under-five mortality rate is also an important statistic, considering the infant mortality rate focuses only on children under one year of age.
- ↑ "Infant Mortality: What Is CDC Doing?". Infant Mortality | Maternal and Infant Health | Reproductive Health |. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/infantmortality-cdcdoing.htm. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
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- ↑ "Infant Mortality & Newborn Health". Women and Children First. https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.org.uk/infant-mortality-newborn-health. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
- ↑ "A population study of first and subsequent pregnancy smoking behaviors in Ohio". Journal of Perinatology 36 (11): 948–953. November 2016. doi:10.1038/jp.2016.119. PMID 27467563.
- ↑ "Environmental and socio-economic determinants of infant mortality in Poland: an ecological study". Environmental Health 14: 61. July 2015. doi:10.1186/s12940-015-0048-1. PMC 4508882. PMID 26195213. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=4508882.
2018
- (Rosling et al., 2018) ⇒ Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling. (2018). “Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World -- and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.” Flatiron Books. ISBN:1250107814
2007
- (Schelltto et al., 2007) ⇒ Carl O. Schelltto, Marie Reilly, Hans Rosling, Stefan Peterson, and Anna Mia Ekström. (2007). “Socioeconomic Determinants of Infant Mortality: A Worldwide Study of 152 Low -, Middle -, and High-income Countries.” Scandinavian journal of public health 35, no. 3