Partly as a result, infant mortality rates either rose or stopped improving.

The biggest decline of mortality, particularly child mortality, was registered in the first 5 years following National Independence (1975 1980) as result of improvements in health, education and habitation conditions.

As far as infant mortality is concerned, in comparison to Western Europe, we have double the worst result.

As a result, maternal and child mortality rates were extremely high in the region, with South Asia recording the highest maternal mortality rate of 650 maternal deaths per 100,000 births.

Female headship can be the result of migration, family dissolution, male mortality or unpartnered fertility.

As a result, worldwide mortality rates in 2005 were 400 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births barely changed since 1990.

The result has been a huge increase in mortality among children and the elderly, due to the grave shortage of medicines.

Reducing mortality in childhood

71. Asked about the percentage of maternal mortality, the representative said that the maternal mortality rate had been rising since the blockade, especially as a result of malnutrition, weakness and anaemia.

Its effects are amplified by declines in mortality and fertility rates, mainly as a result of improved health conditions and population policies in recent years.

Our performance in infant mortality and maternal mortality has not been so good.

Reducing mortality, especially maternal and child mortality

Mortality rate as a result of contagious diseases, excluding acquired immune deficiency syndrome, increased from 191 in 1989 to 271 in 1993, i.e. by 41.8 per cent, as well as infant mortality, caused by other contagious diseases, from 36 in 1989 to 64 in 1993.

As a result of incomplete ascertainment of indigenous status, the indigenous maternal mortality ratio is likely to be an underestimation.

And here is the result in Ukraine, the mortality rate exceeds the birth rate its people have begun to die out as a result of a combination of negative economic, social and environmental factors.

Mortality

Neonatal mortality and postneonatal mortality (covering the remaining 11 months of the first year of life) are reflected in the Infant Mortality Rate.

Life expectancy, especially among males, is growing shorter as a result of the worsening conditions of health and high mortality rates.

Maternal mortality in Pakistan remains high.

National mortality goals in developing countries

Infant mortality

Infant Mortality

Mortality Statistics.

However, the Committee is very concerned that despite decreases in the infant mortality rate, under five mortality rate and maternal mortality rate, these rates remain very high.

As a result of such neglect of the development of human resources, the last few years had witnessed a drastic decrease in life expectancy and a rise in infant mortality.

According to World Health Organization (WHO) indicators, infant and maternal mortality rates had fallen as a result of the improvement in health care services delivered by trained personnel.

Table 7. Decline in mortality and fertility rates in

Maternal mortality rate

Infant Mortality Rates

neonatal mortality rate

Maternal mortality ratio

J. Child mortality

C. Maternal mortality

It's infant mortality.

And sustained government investment in public health is reflected in steady improvement in India s infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, and life expectancy.

We joined the consensus on certain quantified goals in such areas as life expectancy, infant mortality and maternal mortality.

Health indicators, including infant and under five mortality rates, had improved considerably as a result of the national efforts made on behalf of children.

Maternal mortality rates remain dismal in several countries.

A. Goals and targets in health and mortality

12. National mortality goals in developing countries . 71

Then there was similar mortality in '97 '98.

Structure of maternal mortality

Source INEGI. Mortality statistics.

Source INEGI. Mortality statistics.

Paragraph 4 Infant mortality