A Study the Factors Affecting under the Age of 5 Years Child Mortality

In this descriptive-analytical and retrospective study, all below 5 years children who were admitted to Bu Ali and died there during 2009 were studied. Data were collected through questionnaire and studying records of children under the age of 5 and then were analyzed. Among 3737 under 5 hospitalized children, 1302 people were infants and the rest were one month to 5 years old. 40% of the infants who died were male and 60% of them were female. 73/7% of infants were less than or equal to 2500g, 5% of mothers had gestational age of less than 25 weeks, 65% of them had gestational age 37-25 weeks, and the most common cause of death (38/46%) was cardiac arrest. There was a significant relationship between cause of death, the number of twins, maternal age at childbirth, and pregnancy care frequency with deaths of children under 5 but this relationship was not significant with other variables. Due to the high mortality rate and of children under 5 years old with a history of low birth weight and preterm delivery, by providing necessary methods of prevention and therapy this index can dramatically be reduced.