Why is the infant mortality rate used as an indicator of the health status of any group?

a. It is easier to measure infant death than mortality among adults.
b. Infants die when mothers die in childbirth.
c. Infant mortality is easier to compute than age-specific mortality.
d. Infants are particularly susceptible to variations in food availability, health care, and public sanitation.
e. none of the above; infant mortality is not used to indicate the health of a group


D

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