Impact of female literacy on infant mortality and maternal mortality in Kashmir valley: a district level analysis

Female literacy plays a critical role on the overall growth and development of society. It has been proved from research that children who are taken care of by literate mothers get all round development in every aspect of their life. This paper analysed the impact of female literacy rate on the infant mortality and maternal mortality rate in different districts of Kashmir valley. For this linear regression method was used which shows the impact of female literacy rate on infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate. From the result it has been observed that there is inverse relationship between female literacy rate and infant mortality and maternal mortality rate in districts of Kashmir valley. This study analysed that female literacy has immense contribution in declining the infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate and thus help in improving the health status of both women and child.