Background: Mortality rate of infant happens to be pointers by which a nation’s population health and wellbeing can be measured. The main objective of the research was to find out what influences infant death among married female teachers and employees in primary schools for Girls at Al-Jumoum Province.

Methods: A case control study was conducted with a questionnaire designed for collecting data from total sample of married female teachers and employees. One hundred and fifty-two married female teachers and employees from different primary school for Girls participated. Total sample size of 152 with 75 controls and 77 cases.  The collected data were reviewed and coded. Data were analyzed using SPSS (version 18.0) software for analysis. Chi – Square test was used to make comparison between study and control groups.

Results: The result of study confirmed relation between knowledge of teachers and employees toward diabetes during pregnancy and infant death. There was a significant association between knowledge of teachers and employees about type of child feeding toward stillbirth immunity and infant death rate. Moreover, a highly significant association was found between awareness of teachers and employees regarding number of births among family and infant mortality rate.

Conclusions: The results indicated that infant mortality is associated with some socioeconomic factors such as knowledge of type of child feeding toward infant immunity, infection with diabetes during pregnancy knowledge and awareness about number of birth among families.