ABSTRACT
The infant mortality rate (IMR) is considered to be a sensitive health and socioeconomic indicator in any society, and by 1993 it had declined in Jordan from a previously high level to 34.6 per thousand live babies. Mortality due to communicable diseases had declined to 0.3 per cent of all causes of mortality. Malaria had been eradicated for more than 25 years. The immunization ratio against the communicable diseases of polio, pertussis and tetanus had increased remarkably to reach 98 per cent in 1993, for pregnant tetanus 53.5 per cent and for measles 87 per cent. Improved sanitation has also become a major objective.
