Abstract :
Since the mortality of 1-59 babies is the most serious challenges facing human society and an important indicator of
the health and development of countries, providing solutions to reduce this rate as much as possible is of paramount
importance. The main objective of the present study is to examine mortality causes of 1-59 months babies in villages
under the protection of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences from 2012 to 2015. The present cross-sectional
study was conducted through census. The study included the death of all babies registered in Zahedan villages from
2012 to 2015. Required data was collected using raw information form and Child Health Bureau of the Ministry of
Health standard questionnaire; SPSS, version 18, was used to process and analyze collected data. The present study
examined the death of an overall number of 1252 Zahedan village babies aged between 1 to 59 months; 752 infants
aged less than month and this age group turned out to have highest mortality rate; i.e. 60%; the lowest mortality
rate, 16.7%, happened in the age group of 1 to 4 years. The most common causes of death included perinatal
disease (29.8%), unintentional injuries (17.5%), respiratory system diseases (13.2%), infectious and parasitic
diseases (6.5%), congenital and chromosome diseases (6%), and cardiovascular disease (2.5). Since the highest
mortality rate, 29.8%, is related to perinatal diseases of infants, couples’ pre-pregnancy care and counselling can
play crucial role in decreasing the rate of baby, and specially infants, mortality.
Keywords: Mortality, 1-59 Months Babies, Rural, Zahedan, Iran.
Keyword :
Mortality, 1-59 Months Babies, Rural, Zahedan, Iran.