At first, Escobar focused on lowering the infant mortality rate at the hospital where she'd volunteered.
Now, because fewer people go uninsured, the infant mortality rate has dropped and the immunisation rate for toddlers is improving.
It's infant mortality rate of 47.40 deaths per 1, 000 live births ranks 47th highest out of 223 ranked by the CIA World Factbook.
Dr Sen's efforts in public health programmes, say local doctors, helped bringing down the infant mortality rate in the state and deaths caused by diarrhoea and dehydration.
The council has set up the Infant Mortality Rate in Luton group to investigate all the causes, including links to deprivation and poverty, as well as genetic issues.
Even if she emerges from the hospital, however, she'll come out into a country with an infant mortality rate that's 25 times greater than in the United States.
It reported that they were more likely to be poor and that their infant mortality rate was half as high again as that of the rest of the population.
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And in one of the most deprived areas of Maharashtra in India the infant mortality rate fell by 60% over a three year period during which mothers were trained as baby monitors.
Mid-nineteenth-century Americans endured a high rate of infant mortality but expected that most individuals who reached young adulthood would survive at least into middle age.
But according to US government statistics, Afghanistan's dismal rate of infant mortality, a basic indicator of a country's development, has shown no sign of improvement.
Desertification has also been linked to health problems caused by dust storms, poverty and a drop in farm production, with infant mortality in drylands double the rate elsewhere in developing nations.
In Roman times the average life span was just 22 (mainly because of the appalling rate of infant mortality), by 1800 it was 40 years, 1900 around the late 40s and today it hovers around the mid-to-late 70s.
Some conditions associated with congenital heart defects, such as pulmonary hypertension, come with a mortality rate for the mother or infant as high as 50%, Dr. Franklin says.
Despite the trappings of Westernization in major cities, a literacy rate of just 61 percent and high infant mortality rates betray the reality of India's status as an emerging nation.
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