Infant Mortality Summary
Infant Mortality
represents many factors surrounding birth, including but not limited to:
the health of the mother, prenatal care, quality of the health services
delivered to the mother and child and infant care. In addition, high
infant mortality rates are often considered preventable and, thus, can
be influenced by various educational and care programs.
Table 37 displays the 2007 ranks, based on a two-year average
using 2004 and 2005 data. (National
Center
for Health Statistics,
Washington,
D.C. Some data is
provisional.) Infant mortality varies greatly among states, from less
than 5.0 deaths per 1,000 live births in Iowa to more than 9.0 deaths
per 1,000 live births in Mississippi,
Louisiana,
Tennessee,
Delaware and
Alabama. The national average is 6.8
deaths per 1,000 live births; the rate has not changed appreciably since
the 2003 Edition.
The
2007 Edition uses the same data from the same years as the 2006 Edition;
however some values have been updated as corrected information becomes
available. These updates have caused the most change in Wyoming, where
the reported infant mortality rate changed from 7.4 to 5.9 deaths per
1,000 live births and in Delaware where the reported infant mortality
rate changed from 7.6 to 9.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.
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