LEADING CAUSES OF INFANT MORTALITY (Source: WHO) 1. Neonatal tetanus 2.

Severe infection (includes death from pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis/septicaemia and other infections during the neonatal period) 3. Birth asphyxia 4. Diarrheal diseases 5. Congenital animalies 6. Preterm birth (includes only deaths directly attributed to prematurity and to specific complications of preterm birth such as surfactant deficiency, but not all deaths in preterm infants).

Answer: Improve Philippines, 2005 1. Bacterial sepsis of newborn 2. Respiratory distress of newborn 3. Pneumonia 4. Disorders related to short gestation and low birth weight, not elsewhere classified 5. Congenital Pneumonia 6. Congenital malformation of the heart 8. Other congenital malformation 9. Intrauterine hypoxia and birth asphyxia 10.Diarrhea and gastro-enterities of presumed infectious origin