Abstract

This study aimed to identify the most important factors associated with infant mortality in Sudan and ‎determine the risk factors of socioeconomic, demographic, maternal, health status and environmental ‎factors on the infant mortality in Gezira state in Sudan. The data for this study were collected by a ‎questionnaire addressed to women in Gezira state, Sudan (2021). Four hundred women in the ‎reproductive age (15-49) years were chosen randomly for this study. The data were analyzed ‎statistically using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Frequency distributions and a ‎statistical test based on Chi-square for independence was conducted. The results revealed that, ‎mother educational level child's sex, childbirth weight, birth interval and contraceptive use had a ‎significant association on infant mortality. The immunization, Close kinship, First organ appearing , ‎Ability of child's to breast or bottle, Child's suffered from malnutrition, Child's infection with ‎pneumonia, Sanitation are highly significant on the infant mortality. The Ministry of Health and ‎society should give greater attention to improving immunization services and concentrate on health ‎education campaigns for mothers and for the community.‎

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