France occupies the 23rd position in the 27 states of the European Union in terms of infant mortality in 2022, “a marked fall compared to the 1990s, where it was among the best classified countries,” underlines a study conducted by the INED made public this Thursday, March 20.
“While the trend remains descending in its European neighbors, infant mortality stagnates in France,” the National Institute of Demographic Studies in a statement said Thursday.
“The French situation has been significantly degraded”
The infant mortality rate (mortality during the first year of life) reached 4.5 per thousand in boys and 3.7 per thousand between girls for all France in 2022, against 3.5 and 3.0 on average in the EU, respectively.
A dozen European countries show rates of less than 3 per thousand. “Sweden even shows a infant mortality rate of 2.5 per thousand, almost twice lower than that of France,” said the study published in the Population magazine.
“In the thirty -year space, the French situation has significantly deteriorated. In 1990, France was at the top of the European classification for children’s survival,” says INED.
Twenty years later, he still occupied the eighth row for boys and the tenth row for girls. In 2022, it fell respectively to places 24 and 22.
“For a long time, a model in perinatal health, France today sees its position in a worrying way,” observes the INED, which emphasizes that infant mortality is a “key indicator of the quality of perinatal care and public health policies.”
“Medical factors and health status of mothers, territorial and social inequalities of access to care, management quality … several hypotheses must be explored to understand and stop this evolution,” says Ine.
On the contrary, another hypothesis is the improvement of attention in neonatality. The stagnation of infant mortality is mainly due to the increase in mortality during the first week after birth.
Improving the management of large prematurores allows some newborns to survive a few hours or days before their death, when they were previously considered born.
Last week, a tribune of two journalists, Anthony Cortes and Sébastien Manchin, co-authors of “4.1-The scandal of deliveries in France”, published on March 6 at the Bucast-Chastl editions, asked the Government to act urgently against this observation.
Signed by 70 parliamentarians of all stripes, caregivers, parents, she significantly demanded the establishment of a board, a birth record, to “identify the failures and then establish adapted public policies.”
Source: BFM TV
