{"id":42121,"date":"2000-03-22T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2000-03-22T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/child-mortality-declines\/"},"modified":"2000-03-22T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2000-03-22T01:43:56","slug":"child-mortality-declines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/03\/22\/child-mortality-declines\/","title":{"rendered":"Child mortality declines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Child mortality has significantly declined in the DR in the past four years, according to Public Health authorities. In 1996 child mortality was 42.4\/1,000 births. It was reduced to 25\/1,000 in 1999 and an estimated 22.9\/1,000 births by the end of this year. National Health Director, Rafael Schiffino said that the most outstanding reductions have occurred in the post-natal stage, that is babies more than 28 days old whose deaths declined 70%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child mortality has significantly declined in the DR in the past four years, according to Public Health authorities. In 1996 child mortality was 42.4\/1,000 births. It was reduced to 25\/1,000 in 1999 and an estimated 22.9\/1,000 births by the end of this year. National Health Director, Rafael Schiffino said that the most outstanding reductions have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2000\/03\/22\/child-mortality-declines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}