MORTALITATEA INFANTILĂ – REFLECŢIE A DEZVOLTĂRII SOCIO-ECONOMICE
Infant mortality - reflection of socio-economic development

Summary/Abstract: Infant mortality is an indicator of measurement and specific description of the health status of children and, at the same time, is considered as a synthetic index of the health of a population, because in determining the level phenomenon involving a multitude of factors, thus reflecting the concurrent child health for age between 0-1 year, both the economic and social factors and environment and those related to the health services. Romania has one of the last places among European countries (with worse value), depending on the level of infant mortality. In 1990 the infant mortality rate was 26.9 ‰ in the country, with oscillation between 15.9 ‰ and 46.5 ‰ in the counties, and in 1992 the rate decreased to 23.4 ‰. Tendency to decrease was maintained in 1998 infant mortality reached 20.5 ‰, and in 2007 - 12.0 ‰. Infant mortality is higher in rural areas due to the particularities of this specific environment, a registered high mortality for male dominated and after born mortality (approximately 70% of all infant deaths occur after the fulfillment of age one month). The main causes of infant death in 2007 are: birth causes, respiratory diseases and congenital malformations. Decreased infant mortality was due primarily to decreases in early neonatal mortality, both in urban and rural. However, infant mortality rate in Romania remains one of the largest in Europe. Decline in infant mortality is the complex of actions aimed at health and economic development (improvement of maternal-infant health).

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