بررسي عوامل موثر بر مرگ و مير كودكان در شهر ميانه

STUDYING THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE MORTALITY RATE OF INFANTS AND CHILD IN MIANEH CITY.

Mortality is one of the principal demographic components having a great role in determining population growth It can be said that one of the main reasons of low growth of population in the past was high rate of mortality. Medical progress and consequent fundamental decrease in mortality rate especially infant mortality caused population growth to accelerate. In spite of fundamental and continuing decrease in infant mortality rate, it is still very high in developing countries compared to developed countries. Infant mortality rate in Iran (43 per 1000 in the year 2002) compare to Japan (3 per 1000) is very high. What are the factors in keeping this rate so high and how could it be lowered despite these factors, is the main reason and why this subject - the study of factors affecting on mortality rate of infants in Mianeh city_ is selected. To this end, socio-economic, demographical and women autonomy factors affecting infant mortality rate are studied. The results attained indicate that variables of motherʹs education, order of birth and time lag to pervious birth are among most influential variables. Womenʹs education causes reduce in mortality of children directly and indirectly through other variables. Therefore, careful attention must be paid to this very necessary factor.