infant mortality

The top five concerns identified through the health assessment are mental health and wellbeing, access to health care, housing, trauma and injury prevention, and infant mortality.

Indiana's infant mortality rate was at a historic low last year, according to the Indiana Department of Health.

Monthly stipends will go to families living in areas with the most infant deaths.

Indiana's infant mortality numbers fell to a historic low in 2024, but still tracks above the national average. Health officials last month discussed how to continue improving those numbers.

After more than 10 Hoosier infants died in unsafe sleep environments in recent weeks, the state’s health department is urging parents and caregivers to take extra precautions at bedtime.

Indiana's infant mortality rate improved again in 2024 according to new preliminary data from the state. The Indiana Department of Health said the rate is at a "historic low" since record-keeping began in 1900.

Experts worry about the impact of cuts to Medicaid and public health on maternal and infant health.

Indiana’s infant mortality rate improved in 2023. Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Indiana is no longer among the ten worst states.

Indiana has some of the worst infant and maternal mortality rates in the country. And those numbers are even worse among Black Hoosiers and in rural areas.

An important aspect of lowering infant and maternal mortality rates is connecting pregnant people to prenatal care earlier. But that can be difficult in rural areas that are considered maternal care deserts. A hospital on the edge of Indiana’s largest obstetric care desert created a clinic to remove at least one barrier to that care.