Not so long ago the humanity entered the new millennium. Thuswise, it is relevant to speculate about certain results of human activity. Its major direction in whichever sphere, including health care, is progress and advancement that' why I decided to write my memo for me in such area. One of the crucial issues regarding public health is infant mortality. Reducing it is among so-called Millennium Development Goals, a set of tasks the United Nations were to complete by 2015. However, the attainability of the given goal is an ambiguous issue as it varies around the globe along with the determinants of health.

Health determinants are the socioeconomic and environmental factors that influence health of the population in each particular community. In fact, they underlie the living standards. It is worthy to note that experts normally exclude high-income countries from analysis. The reason is that child mortality rates in those hardly ever exceed forty deaths per 1000 births. This illustrates an obvious link, which health and survivability have to such parameter as revenue level.

From a narrower perspective, that connection depends on several factors. First, lower-income individuals do not have a stable access to proper health services. That deprives them of a chance for an adequate diagnosis and treatment. Another thing of limited availability is education. In turn, an under-educated individual is unable to reveal and identify health problems of their children. This also results into poor genetic background and increase in hereditary diseases. Consequently, the lack of financial homogeneity around the globe interferes with attaining the goal under review.

In the meantime, money is not the only parameter. Africa, Middle East, and Latin America are the regions with the highest death rates, not only infant. What characterizes those territories is outstandingly hot climate favorable for a variety of infections. This fact shows a direct relation between environmental and health aspects. In addition, the majority of local residents live in deplorable sanitation. This dramatically contributes to bacterial growth and hence death rates, more so, for children. Thus, physical environment is detrimental in reducing infant mortality as well.

Notwithstanding the obstacles, a range of countries, primarily in Africa, have shown up to 83% progress since the 1990s. The investigators underscore a general upturn in the local health systems. According to Cha, there has been the mobilization of costs at both national and global levels. That resulted in developing and implementing additional social policies. Subsequently, the financial aspect is also able to facilitate attaining the given goal.

Furthermore, African and Asian peoples traditionally have close family ties and practice mutual aid. This results in sharing positive experience related to treatment and additional care about children. In other words, there are more chances to avoid death when living and interacting in a network. WHO claims that such behavior determines health as well, going under the label of social support.

To summarize, infant death rate belongs to the major concerns the UNO faces in the twenty-first century. Subsequently, reducing it is one of Millennium Development Goals, which is difficult to attain due to constant interference of health determinants. Regions that face the given challenge are primarily located in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. The locals find themselves in poor environmental, educational, and financial conditions. This bitterly escalates mortality, especially in case of children. However, having establishing the goal, certain countries accumulated funds for implementing relevant policies. Due to this, there have been recorded fewer child deaths during the past two decades. Another nuance probably involved in this is social support.