Word: infants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exceed 15 per cent of their total income. Fifty-one million Americans live in areas without sufficient access to health care services. Medical costs in general are running wild and Medicaid costs in particular threaten to bankrupt your states. Life expectancies vary widely by race and income levels, and infant mortality rates are 50-100 per cent higher in your urban poverty centers than in the nation as a whole...
...bold experiment in regional care reduces infant mortality...
...having babies. She had under gone open-heart surgery at age 8, and the physicians feared that her heart might not be able to withstand the strain of pregnancy. Yet, at 31, she has just given birth to her second child at Los Angeles County Harbor General Hospital. The infant boy weighs only 2 Ibs, and is being kept in an incubator, but he is given a good chance to survive. Says Herrera of her doctors and nurses: "They're doing a fantastic job. They really...
Such difficult, yet successful pregnancies are no longer unusual- thanks to better medical understanding, new drugs and such sophisticated monitoring and screening techniques as ultrasonics and amniocentesis. Yet while the U.S. helped start this revolution in perinatal and neonatal* care, it still lags behind a dozen other countries in infant-survival rates. To help solve this problem, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of Princeton, N.J., allocated $20 million for a five-year experiment that established or expanded regional networks-three in California, two in New York and one each in Ohio, Texas and Arizona. All deliver specialized care for high...
...program seems to be succeeding. Infant mortality rates have declined in each of the regions served by the project. At New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, the hub of a 16-hospital network in Manhattan and New Jersey that handles 16,000 births a year, the incidence of stillbirths, and deaths within seven days of life in infants weighing 2.2 lbs. or more has dropped from 22.8 per thousand births in 1967 to 9.6 per thousand in 1977. Many of these problem births were from the Harlem ghetto, and Administrator Dr. Solan Chao points out that quite...