Word: birthweight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS disparity between high costs and low benefits partly exists because of a profound bias towards institutional health care in this country. Expensive neonatal hospital units which miraculously save the lives of low birthweight babies are rewarded with glamorous news stories and bigger budgets. In contrast, less popular residential clinics which deliver prevention-oriented prenatal care are massively underfunded...
...recent study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) indicated that an investment in prenatal care for those who cannot afford it would save hundreds of infant lives, prevent hundreds more from being born with low birthweight, and avoid thousands of dollars in neonatal care expenditures. Prenatal care pays for itself four times over...
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