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 ...

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

That is more than double the rate of white infants, whose mortality rate was 5.1. In my district, the 46628 ZIP code had the second-highest infant mortality rate in the state between 2019 and 2023.

It’s reduced the Black infant mortality rate to nine deaths for every thousand live births – the first time it’s been in the single digits since recording began. Ohio’s infant mortality rate is among ...

State infant mortality rates decreased from 650 deaths in 2022 to 607 in 2023, according to a June MDHHS press release. This is a decrease from 6.3 to 6.1 per 1,000 deaths, respectively.

Michigan is recording its lowest infant mortality in history, with a combination of mother-and-baby health initiatives credited for pushing up survival rates. The topic was among those discussed ...

"Our Under 5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) was as high as 88 per 1000 live births in 2008. This has also come down from 40 (SRS 2020) to 37 (SRS 2021) and further down to 35 (SRS 2022), almost reducing to ...

While this drop in the state infant mortality rate to 6.3 per 1,000 births is a hopeful sign, Indiana still sits well above the national average of 5.6 per 1,000 births.