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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Recent Shifts in Infant Mortality in India: An Exploration -KS James

Recent Shifts in Infant Mortality in India: An Exploration -KS James

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published Published on Jan 12, 2014   modified Modified on Jan 12, 2014
-Economic and Political Weekly

 

 

The pace of decline in infant mortality in India has quickened in recent years after the introduction of the National Rural Health Mission. However, the post-neonatal deaths have declined faster than the neonatal deaths despite the emphasis on preventing the latter in the health mission. Apart from a number of reasons, this is linked to the poor quality of the public health services in general, and the undernourishment and anaemia levels of pregnant women in particular.

K S James (james@isec.ac.in) is with the Population Research Centre, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

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Economic and Political Weekly, Vol-XLIX, No. 3, January 18, 2014, http://www.epw.in/commentary/recent-shifts-infant-mortality-india.html


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