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Discuss some social and cultural determinants of infant mortality rate. Give your suggestions to prevent infanticide.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Population Dynamics

Infant mortality is a medical event with a social aetiology. India's rate fell from 129 per 1,000 live births in 1971 to 25 in 2023, yet Kerala records 5 against 37 in Uttar Pradesh. Two demands follow: the determinants of that variation, and separate remedies for infanticide, which is not a health failure but a…

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  • Preventing infanticide
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