{"id":275934,"date":"2023-07-30T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=275934"},"modified":"2023-07-30T11:33:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T15:33:52","slug":"infant-mortality-the-problem-beyond-the-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/infant-mortality-the-problem-beyond-the-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Infant mortality, the problem beyond the rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Infant mortality (IM) is an indicator of socioeconomic development. In this sense, in order to achieve low rates, several conditions that determine the quality of life must be combined. Cuba closed 2022 with an IM rate of 7.5 per 1,000 live births: the second highest in the last two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

The IM defines the number of deaths during the first year of life that occur per thousand births. On the island, its highest previous figure in this century (7.6) was reported in 2021, a year that drastically reversed the behavior of the indicator. In 2012, Cuba had <\/span>registered<\/span><\/a> an infant mortality rate of 4.6%, the lowest in the American continent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since 2000, Cuba had not registered a rate higher than 7. In fact, the country began the century with a downward trend that it maintained for almost two decades and whose culminating point was the achievement, for two consecutive years (2017-2018), of its lowest historical record: 4.0.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2021, according to experts, the direct influence of the pandemic on the health of pregnant women and the stress to which the health system was subjected had a definitive weight on the statistics. That year was, without a doubt, the turning point.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two years later, <\/span>with the coronavirus under control<\/span><\/a>, and despite the declared efforts to reverse the figures, at the close of the first four months of 2023, Cuba already <\/span>registers<\/span><\/a> an IM rate of 7.2.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cuba regresa a una mortalidad infantil del siglo pasado<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n