Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, the problem of infant mortality in America has been a case study of the failure of our health care system...
...spend and spend and spend for health care--$550 billion in 1988, comprising 11.5 percent of our GNP. Yet America's infant mortality rate ranks 18th among industrialized nations. The rate of Black infant mortality is twice that of whites and is comparable to rates in many Third World nations...
...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...
...When Casandra Gethers of Hollywood, Fla., gave birth to her second cocaine- addicted infant, she was arrested in February and charged with child abuse. Her baby was placed in foster care...
...notion that a woman should be held accountable for her actions during pregnancy. A Gallup poll conducted for Hippocrates magazine last year found that 48% of those who responded agreed that a woman who smokes or drinks during pregnancy should be legally liable for damage to her infant...