Early progress

Article Abstract:

The US infant mortality rate at the turn of the 20th century was no higher than that of the poorest Third World countries in the 1990s. There was one death out of every 10 births because of contagious diseases and diarrhea brought about by subhuman sanitary conditions and water contamination. Since then, the government has progressed in its social and health policymaking. The 1930s saw the New Deal of Pres Franklin Roosevelt where federal income support was extended to poor families. Medicaid was born in 1965 with its support for pregnant women. In 1972, the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children was created to combat malnutrition among mothers and babies.

Health aspects, United States, Medical policy, Health policy

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Why babies die

Article Abstract:

Infant deaths in the 1990s are usually caused by low birthweight which in turn results from premature delivery. The reasons for premature delivery are generally grounded on poverty, bad dietary habits and inadequate medical care. Furthermore, there several socially related causes of fetal underdevelopment including drug abuse by mothers, venereal disease and adolescent pregnancies. There is also the existence of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome otherwise known as crib death.

Causes of, Premature birth, Sudden infant death syndrome

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