Abstract:
The development of health, education and information communication
technology have crucial role in infant mortality of a country. Even though the Sri
Lanka is a developing country, it has recorded higher development in health,
education and ICT. Here the question is whether higher development of health,
education and ICT have contributed or not to increase life expectancy? That is what
this study tries to find the role of development of health, education and ICT in infant
mortality of Sri Lanka. For this study, annual data of Sri Lanka from 1980 to 2017
were used and the data was obtained from world development indicator database
scatter graph, Correlation, and simple regression were used to analyse the
relationship and ordinary least squares technique was used to estimate the
regression models. Finding of this study emphasize that development of health has
significantly reduced infant mortality of Sri Lanka. While, development of
education and ICT also have contributed to fall infant mortality of Sri Lanka but it
is insignificant. This study further founds that the lack of knowledge related to
health and medicine causes for insignificant impact of educational development to
reduce infant mortality. Besides, this study further finds that the technological
knowledge of Sri Lanka is very less even though overall literacy of Sri Lanka
reached high. This is the reason for insignificant influence of ICT to fall infant
mortality. Then this study recommends that the government should provide
priority to the projects which are related to increase the health and medical
knowledge of the people and It is important to take measures to increase the
technological knowledge and to connect the health and medical sector with
information communication technology. Further new projects should be
introduced to break out the limitation in using ICT by the people who live in rural
area and with lack of literacy.
