Word: infantalizing
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Cambridge had a more than 50 percent increase in its infant mortality rate, which was reflected mostly in the Black community, Stobierski...
...experts are not certain what has precipitated the rise of infant mortality in Massachusetts. Most said that it is probably a result of the decrease in social services...
Stobierski said that Massachusetts has "generally been below the national average for infant mortality." The national date for the infant mortality rate of 1985 is not yet available...
Director of the Massachusetts Health Action Alliance, Susan T. Sherry, said that the Alliance has been working to counteract what it sees as the main causes of the infant mortality increase. She cited "inadequate physician participation in Medicaid" and the increase of uninsured people as possible causes for the increase of infant mortality. "People don't get preventative care if they're uninsured," she said...
Officials said a task force, which suggested ways to improve prenatal care in 1985 after the infant mortality increase of 1982, will reconvene in order to suggest further ways to improve access to prenatal care...