(精编)MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH (MCH)教学课件.pptVIP

MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH (MCH);Status of women and Children in Developing Countries:;Prenatal mortality may be as much as ten times higher than that of infants born in industrialized countries: the infant mortality rate may be six to twenty times greater than that of the industrialized regions of Europe and North America; the death rate among pre-school children is also up to ten times as high. ;Furthermore, in technically underdeveloped countries half of the total mortality may occur in children under 5 years of age compared to only 5% in countries such as United Kingdom and Sweden. This pat