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Why do so many babies die in Indiana? By Giles Bruce The (Munster) Times Mar 7, 2017 (1) Every year, about 600 Indiana babies die before their first birthdays.That's enough to fill 33 kindergarten classrooms or 11 school buses. A baby dies about every 14 hours in this state.Indiana has the eighth-highest infant mortality rate in the nation, with more than seven babies losing their lives for every 1,000 live births. Only Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia and Kentucky do worse. Indiana is the farthest north of any state in the bottom 10 — and the only one in the Midwest on that list.If the state lowered its rate to the national average, 118 infants would be saved every year. If Indiana had the same rate as the best-performing state, California, 275 fewer infants would die annually. If Indiana was on par with Finland, 471 more babies would survive past their first birthdays.The fact that many of these deaths are preventable raises these questions: How many dead infants are we willing to accept? And why is our infant death rate so high?Continued: http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/news/state/why-do-so-many-babies-die-in-indiana/article_b5fdee34-a151-5021-bcbe-048672265207.html
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/special-section/infant-mortality/Here is the source for the original articles.
