Why Have Maternal And Infant Mortality Rates Dropped?
Why Have Maternal And Infant Mortality Rates Dropped? Medical advances (including the use of antibiotics, oxytocin to induce labor, and safe blood transfusion and better management of hypertensive conditions during pregnancy) accelerated declines in maternal mortality. Why has the infant mortality rate decreased? By 1960, 70 percent of infants could be expected to survive to