Regional characteristics of infant mortality in the Middle Urals

Abstract

There is presented the analysis of the mortality of children aged up to one year in Sverdlovsk region from 2008 to 2013. The dynamics of infantile mortality indicators in Sverdlovsk region is given taking into account various reasons and in comparison with similar indicators in the Russian Federation. The increase of specific load of infectious diseases is shown in the structure of infantile mortality due to viral infections. The negative tendency of the increase in infant death cases at home due to infectious causes is marked in combination with unfavourable social factors. Infectious diseases composed 25,0% in the structure of child mortality at home among children aged up to one year. In 2013 unidentified infections (41,4%), Herpes virus infection (20,7%), intestinal viral infections (3,4%), and cytomegalovirus infections (3,4%) had the highest numbers.

Keywords

• babies
• infections
• death at home