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Organised on February 5, 2001, this workshop was aimed to thoroughly discuss how to overcome existing obstacles in further reduction of infant mortality with special focus on neonatal mortality and low birth weight, through practical, probable, possible and preferably proven interventions and develop pragmatic recommendations to be disseminated to all concerned authorities, agencies and opinion makers with a later follow up through a workable modality.
The workshop facilitated representatives
from civil society, government, national and international academics,
scientists and medical practitioners to discuss about reduction
of infant mortality in developing countries with special reference
to India. The main issues that the workshop focused on included
the current situation of IMR in India to highlight the trends in
the last few decades with current and future projections, regional
variations with identification of plausible reasons for the same;
the interrelationships between IMR and other factors such as maternal
nutrition, safe childbirth and postnatal care, female education
and family planning, and adolescent health, and the importance of
addressing these factors to impact IMR; bottlenecks in further reduction
of the various health indicators related to IMR and the need and
suggestions to remove the same at a global, national and local level;
and international experiences delineating measures to bring down
the neonatal mortality and incidence of low birth weight, and their
replicability in the the Indian context..
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