Neonatal death is usually understood to mean the death of a child in the first month after birth, infant death being death within the first year. The neonatal death rate is the number of neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births. The still birth rate is the number of babies of over 7 months' pregnancy who are born dead per 1,000 total births. That the subject of neonatal death and still birth is an...

Introduction: Sub-optimal infant and early childhood feeding practices in India contribute to the high burden of child under-nutrition and infant death. Objective: To study the effect of breastfeeding duration on the survival of infants along with other demographic, socioeconomic and service related factors and to compare the decadal changes in the association. Methods: A total of 36,754 and 26...

BACKGROUND Ethiopia has made large-scale healthcare investments to improve child health and survival. However, there is insufficient population level data on the current estimates of infant mortality rate (IMR) in the country. The aim of this study was to measure infant mortality rate, investigate risk factors for infant deaths and identify causes of death in a rural population of northern Ethi...

OBJECTIVES This report presents 2004 period infant mortality statistics from the linked birth/infant death data file by a variety of maternal and infant characteristics. The linked file differs from the mortality file, which is based entirely on death certificate data. METHODS Descriptive tabulations of data are presented and interpreted. Excluding rates by cause of death, the infant mortalit...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2011), more than 4,500 infants die annually in the United States of no apparent cause of death. These deaths are defined as sudden unexplained infant deaths (SUID). Half of these SUIDs are because of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). SIDS is defined as the sudden death of an infant less than 1 year of age that remains unexplained a...

Public and professional awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has increased in the 28 years since the establishment of the National Sudden Infant Death Foundation, now called the National SIDS Alliance.' Similarly, awareness of child abuse has increased in the 30 years since the publication of the first article on the battered child. In the majority of cases, when an infant younger t...