Infant Mortality (IMR)

What is the infant mortality rate?

The risk of death during the first year.

Infant mortality it’s related to which factors?

• Underlying health of the mother

• Public health practices

• Socioeconomic conditions

• Availability and use of appropriate health care for infants and pregnant women

What are the major causes of infant mortality?

• Low birth weight babies born too soon (premature)

• Too small (low-birth weight and intrauterine growth retardation)

• Too sick

The decline is infant mortality is due to?

• Health providers: ability to provide intensive care to premature infants

• The establishment of regional neonatal intensive care unit

• The healthcare industry’s ability to prevent low birth weights.

Recently, the ratio of Black to White Infant mortality rate was recorded as ______ in NJ, one of the highest in the nation.

2.3

The major cause of Infant mortality rate has been linked to ____________.

Environmental factors

African American babies are ___ times as likely to be born: too soon, too small, too sick to survive.

2-3

Infant Mortality in the U.S.

1. The infant mortality rate in the U.S. is considered high for a developed country. As of 2017, the infant mortality rate in the U.S. ranks ____

2. In 2016, the Infant mortality rate for African Americans was _______

3. African Americans had ___ times the sudden infant death syndrome mortality rate of Whites.

1. 170th

2. 11.4 deaths per 1000

3. 2.2

What are the measures taken to prevent infant health problems?

• Managing high-risk pregnancies

• Managing high-risk newborns

• Preventing unwanted pregnancies among high-risk parents

What is the plan to remove infant mortality rates?

1. A network between health care experts and minority communities to encourage healthy behaviors by pregnant women and parents of infants.

2. Research that will determine the cause of SIDs, and develop effective strategies to identify at-risk infants more precisely.

3. Create effective interventions for high-risk infants.