Costa Rica saves infants' lives

Rosero-Bixby, L.

World Health Forum 9(3): 439-443

1988


ISSN/ISBN: 0251-2432
PMID: 3252842
Document Number: 358449
Between 1970-80 the infant mortality rate in Costa Rica fell from 68 to 20 per 1000 live births. Socioeconomic gains during the 1970s helped to bring this about but the main factor was health interventions, particularly rural and urban primary health care programmes which were started in 1973. Up to 75% of the decline was attributable to contemporary improvements in public health services. Further, by targetting interventions on the underprivileged, mainly in rural areas, primary care reduced differentials in child mortality related to socioeconomic status.

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