Infant Mortality

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Infant Mortality
Infant Mortality

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Being born early is now the chief cause of infant death

The tide is turning on child mortality. For the first time, infectious diseases like measles, malaria and diarrhoea are no longer the leading killers of young children around the world. That position is now taken by complications resulting from premature birth, a problem for both wealthy and low-income countries.

While deaths from infectious diseases have been steadily declining as a result of research and medical intervention, preterm birth has remained a much more difficult problem, say the authors of a recent study that collated child mortality rates and their associated causes between 2000 and 2013. For the purposes of their research, preterm birth was defined as any child born…

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 Being born early is now the chief cause of infant death

The tide is turning on child mortality. For the first time, infectious diseases like measles, malaria and diarrhoea are no longer the leading killers of young children around the world. That position is now taken by complications resulting from premature birth, a problem for both wealthy and low-income countries.

CDC

Infant mortality is the death of an infant before his or her first birthday. The infant mortality rate is the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births.

WHO

Globally, the infant mortality rate has decreased from an estimated rate of 65 deaths per 1000 live births in 1990 to 29 deaths per 1000 live births in 2018. Annual infant deaths have declined from 8.7 million in 1990 to 4.0 million in 2018.

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