Challenges of Age Specific Death rate for Enhancing Human Resource in Tamil Nadu

Abstract

Investment in human will motivate the economic developments. For that governments must spend more and more efficiently on primary education, basic health care, nutrition and family planning. That requires shifts in spending priorities greater efficiency and better targeting of expenditure, and in some cases greater resource mobilization. Child health reflects and determines the human condition. The growth of societies depends on the quality of its people, and the quality of population depends on health and education. Child health affects growth, learning and work; more children die because their mothers are exhausted from excessive child birth, work and infection. Improvements made in child health over the last 25 years has exhibited impressive achievement.The nation of a child survival resolution has taken root and is spreading. The developing world has cut infant death from 20 percent of live births in 1960 to 12 percent in 1993. The world health organization (WHO) however projects that the third world will not reach WHO’s infant mortality goal of 5 percent by the end of the century. Industrial countries by contrast have achieved rates between 0.7 percent and 0.2 percent. But India had experienced a decline in infant morality rate. The fall in the infant mortality rate from 110 per 1000 in 1981 to 97 in 1985, 91 in 1989, 80 in 1990 and 79 in 1992 is indeed noteworthy.