Infant Mortality Rate

Niti Aayog boss Amitabh Kant says inter-state development disparities holding India back; this is what he means

The rate of development varies widely across states in India, building a picture of an unequal nation

WHO commends India for achieving maternal mortality goal; but health ministry statistics differ from UNDP targets

India has met the MDG (Millenium Development Goal) target for MMR (Maternal Mortality Ratio) of 139/lakh live births by achieving 130 by 2015.

In low-income households, a mobile voice message service is working to reduce maternal, infant mortality

They have also been running the ‘Infant and Young Children Feeding’ Programme for the hospital as well as giving family planning counselling on hospitals’ request.

Telangana completes four years: State faces massive development challenges, most of them legacy issues

The 29th state of the Union of India, Telangana has completed four years of its existence. Following are some challenges that the state faces.

Gujarat govt to launch special ambulance service to transport critically ill newborns, prevent infant deaths

The Gujarat government, after a successful year-long pilot operation. has decided to launch an ambulance service dedicated to transport critically ill infants to better hospitals.

Babies born in world's poorest countries still face alarming risks of death: UNICEF

Babies born in the world's poorest countries, most of them in Africa, still face "alarming" risks of death that can be 50 times as high as those in the richest countries.

Budget 2018: Citizens expect urgent govt support to improve healthcare infra, finds LocalCircles survey

Government’s spending on healthcare has been coming down over years with spend in last budget being 1.2 percent of GDP.

Mother's education, family's financial stability directly impact infant mortality rate in India, reveals govt data

Mortality rates of children in poorer households were higher, as were the rates where mothers had fewer years of schooling, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of the latest national health data

MHA to start work related to 2021 census this year, Rajnath Singh chairs meet on road map

The work related to 2021 census, covering the country's entire 1.30 billion population, will begin this year, the home ministry said on Wednesday.

Politics and polls apart, Himachal Pradesh citizens better off than Gujarat in social index but earn little less

IndiaSpend analysed different government data and found that while Himachal Pradesh’s per capita income is almost equal to Gujarat’s, the Himalayan state is better off in six of seven social indicators we considered: Infant mortality rate (IMR), sex ratio, literacy rate among men and women, underweight prevalence among children, crime rate against women and crime rate against scheduled castes (SCs).