[Social factors associated with infants' mortality]

ABSTRACT

Introduction: One of the important health indexes showing health status of a society is health index of mortality rate of children < 1 year. There are many negative parameters weakening potentiality of children in growth and development of which some can be categorized as social factors. This research has tried to investigate some factors as education level, parents' jobs, maternal care, the times of childcare, breast feeding and < 1 year children mortality