South Carolina Infant Mortality

Author : Barbara Devaney
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331445039
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Infant Mortality Among Medicaid Newborns in Five States written by Barbara Devaney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Infant Mortality Among Medicaid Newborns in Five States: The Effects of Prenatal Wic Participation Program (the wic-medicaid study). Based on newborn analysis files, the study includes all Medicaid births in 1987 for Florida, Minnesota, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and all Medicaid births from January through June 1988 in Texas. Infant mortality is defined as the number of deaths to Medicaid infants under one year of age per live Medicaid births. Infant mortality has two components-neonata] mortality and postneonatal mortality. Neonatal mortality refers to death rates of Medicaid infants during the first 28 days after birth, while postneonatal mortality refers to death rates of Medicaid infants between 28 days and one year after birth. Infant mortality rates of Medicaid newborns varied significantly across the five study states, ranging from deaths per live births in Florida to in Minnesota to and in North Carolina and South Carolina, respectively. (in Texas, the infant mortality rate for Medicaid newborns was not available, since the infant death data refer only to six months after birth.) Neonatal mortality rates of Medicaid newborns were, on average, between 50 and 60 percent of the annual infant mortality rates and ranged from deaths per live births in Texas to in South Carolina. In Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas, wic participation by 30 weeks gestation is associated with a significant reduction in infant mortality, with most of the decline attributable to reductions in neonatal mortality. Infant Mortality. With the exception of Minnesota, the predicted infant mortality rates for prenatal wic participants are roughly one-quarter to two-thirds the predicted infant mortality rates for nonparticipants. The estimated reductionsin infant mortality rates of Medicaid newborns resulting from prenatal wic participation are infant deaths per live births in Florida, in Texas (six-month mortality), in North Carolina, and in South Carolina. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.