Just over a third of eligible Arkansans participate in federal nutrition assistance aimed at low-income women and children, the second-lowest participation rate in the nation ...

U.S. children face rising mortality and worsening health compared to peers in wealthy nations, according to a new study.

Among those aged 1 to 19, the net difference in mortality rates per 100,000 grew from 4 to just under 6 for firearm deaths.

It’s reduced the Black infant mortality rate to nine deaths for every thousand live births – the first time it’s been in the single digits since recording began. Ohio’s infant mortality rate is among ...

State infant mortality rates decreased from 650 deaths in 2022 to 607 in 2023, according to a June MDHHS press release. This is a decrease from 6.3 to 6.1 per 1,000 deaths, respectively.

Design We construct a sample of 5.2 million births by pooling retrospective birth histories reported by women in Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 83 low-income and middle-income countries ...

Michigan is recording its lowest infant mortality in history, with a combination of mother-and-baby health initiatives credited for pushing up survival rates. The topic was among those discussed ...

"Our Under 5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) was as high as 88 per 1000 live births in 2008. This has also come down from 40 (SRS 2020) to 37 (SRS 2021) and further down to 35 (SRS 2022), almost reducing to ...

While this drop in the state infant mortality rate to 6.3 per 1,000 births is a hopeful sign, Indiana still sits well above the national average of 5.6 per 1,000 births.

MDHHS said that Black infant mortality rates saw a large decrease year-over-year, dropping from 14.1 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2022 to 11.9 deaths per 1,000 births in 2023.