Beyond neonatal and Under-five Mortality: The Case for Infant Mortality in India
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https://doi.org/10.56450/JEFI.2025.v3i04.005Keywords:
Gender, Rural, Urban, Projection, Annual Average rate of reduction, StatesAbstract
Child mortality has been redefined at global platform with Neonatal and under five mortality rates but ignoring Infant mortality rate which measures child survival and reflective of biological, social, economic and environmental conditions in which children live. In the absence of, however, any milestone to achieve, efforts towards controlling IMR can shift to lower priority order having serious repercussions for child health. This paper arguing for the importance of IMR undertook a state level analysis to project the levels for 2025 and 2030 and estimate gender and place of residence-based differentials. The analysis is based on the last two rounds of Sample Registration System, 2019 and 2020. For state level analysis, trajectory of change in IMR across gender and place of residence is described using Annual Average Rate of Reduction (AARR) based on log-linear regression approach and for projection, constant AARR based on 2016-20 level is assumed. The results reveal the rural-urban divide, but what is critical is the differing experience of rural and urban parts of the same state. About gender differentials, females have lesser IMR, but this difference could have been widened. Eastern region and Chhattisgarh in particular needs targeted attention to bring down the levels of IMR.
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