But local health officials maintain there is still more work to be done to lift the county from its position near the bottom ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — In Indiana, Black infants are at an increased risk of infant mortality with a rate of 7.3 deaths per 1000 live births. That’s more than twice the rate of white infants.

Finland remains a world-leader in neonatal care, despite the country's falling birth rate and, consequently, a decline in ...

Table of contents In A Nutshell U.S. Child Mortality Data Shows Troubling Trend Children’s Mental Health Crisis Intensifies ...

Both in Indiana and nationally, Black infants and pregnant people continue to die at the highest rate. A community ...

Since 2015, France's infant mortality rate has consistently been higher than the EU average. Boys are 1.2 times more likely than girls to die before the age of one and twins or triplets are five ...

In the country with the highest infant mortality rate in the developed world, however, there are 5.4 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. Life expectancy at birth is just 77.4 years, despite a GNI ...

Per 1,000 live births, the observed infant mortality rate caused by congenital abnormalities was 1.37 compared with an expected rate of 1.24, resulting in a relative increase of 10.87%.

Infant mortality rates have increased in states that adopted abortion bans after the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a new study. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School o… ...

At the same time, infant mortality rates have been rising. Shefali Luthra is reproductive health reporter at the 19th, which covers gender politics and policy.

Infant mortality rates were back within the normal range a year after the ruling, which may indicate that the pool of people willing to become pregnant had changed in response to the newly ...

Alabama’s infant mortality rate continued a downward trend in 2022 even as infant deaths rose in the nation for the first time in nearly a decade, according to a Centers for Disease Control and ...