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8287078

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-2-22
pubmed:abstractText
Infant mortality continues to be a major public health issue in the United States. Although some preventive strategies for neonatal mortality are emerging for congenital malformations, notably neural tube defects, the prevention of preterm deliveries among disadvantaged populations remains elusive, suggesting the need for different approaches to women's health needs. Despite the lack of success in preventing preterm birth, neonatal mortality rates continued to decline substantially, a decline attributed to improvements in neonatal intensive care associated with surfactant use. The increasing survival of very preterm infants continues to raise questions about their longer term outcomes especially with several recent studies on difficulties in school, and about the need for postdischarge developmental interventions. Attempts to decrease postneonatal mortality received marked attention with the recommendations for specific positioning to prevent sudden infant death syndrome and heightened attention to increased immunization completion rates. The dismal ranking of the United States in infant mortality rates among industrialized countries, however, continues to present a social policy challenge.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1040-8703
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
552-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Infant mortality.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review