1. Infant Mortality and Morbidity ln the International Year of the Child.
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Yankauer, Alfred
- Subjects
INFANT mortality ,PERINATAL death ,PUBLIC welfare ,MEDICAL care ,PUBLIC health ,SOCIAL services ,NUTRITION ,BIRTH control - Abstract
The article focuses on the cases of infant mortality and morbidity in England in 1909 until the present. In 1909, there are bout 120 of the 1,000 infants born alive died before reaching their first birthday not only in England but also to countries which were now considered developed or industrialized. However, infant mortality today in most rich countries had been cut down to about 10 percent than what it was 70 years ago which is primarily because of better social welfare and public health services. One reason for the adequate decline in infant mortality during the twentieth century is the improvement in nutrition which plays a very important role in infant mortality. In the decline in the U.S. infant mortality is the spread of various family planning methods.
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- 1979
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