title: Early childhood mortality--a rural study.
abstract: The present study was conducted in 9 villages of Rural Health Training Centre, Jawan, Aligarh, India, having 1792 registered families. The infant mortality rate was 79.3 per 1000 live births. Higher mortality in children between 1-2 years (29.6/1000) in comparison to 2-5 years (16.2/1000) reflected the higher vulnerability of children below 2 years. Diarrhoea (21.2%) and neonatal factors (21.2%) were the major cause of infant mortality followed by pneumonia (18.2%) and tetanus (15.1%). Diarrhoea (32.2%), pneumonia (22.6%) and malnutrition (12.9%) were the major killers in children between 1-5 years. Mortality in females was higher than males in infancy. Risk factors associated with infant mortality included extremes of maternal age (< 20+ > 35 years) primipara or multipara and illiterate mothers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, J N Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, India.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Khalique
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yunus
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Malik
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D012423:Rural Health; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires