Kushal JainAIR 40 · CSE 2021 · 162 wordsTheir whole copy
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Development refers to a more inclusive form of growth where economic affluence is accompanied by social affluency like reduced inequality, gender growth and better health etc.
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→ Infant mortality reflects level of development
Highlights level of healthcare : Availability of institutional deliveries, medicines for maternal care and experts to handle complicated pregnancies.
Indicates level of nutrition : Healthy mothers deliver healthy children. In India, 51% of women are anaemic highlighting higher incidences of infant and maternal mortality.
Highlights Tribal growth: Tribal infant mortality is highest due to primitive methods of childbirth, absence of institutional maternity rooms. This reflects tribal integration levels in a society.
Prevalence of patriarchy : High infant mortality also is a product of female foeticide, lesser attention to women's health and apathy towards women issue.
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Infant mortality thus provides an idea of socio-medical conditions in any society. Lack of political attention also highlights the priorities of great tradition (elites) in devising a path to development.