The infant Mortality rate is __
The risk of death during the first year of life
Infant Mortality is related to the following factors:
� Underlying health of the mother
� Public health practices
� Socioeconomic conditions
� Availability & use of appropriate health care for infants and pregnant women
Major Causes of infant mortality rate:
� Low-birth weight babies born too soon
(premature)
� Too small (low-birth weight &
intrauterine growth retardation)
� Too sick
Decline In Infant Mortality Rates Is Due To:
� Health Providers ability to provide intensive care to premature infants
� The establishment of regional neonatal intensive care units
� The Health Care Industry's ability to prevent low-birth weights
Facts
� Infants born to black mothers who have college degrees and presumably greater affluence have greater mortality rates than infants of white mothers who have less than a college degree.
In 2010, the IMR for African American was
6.1 deaths per 1000
The IMR in the US is considered __ for a developed country. As of 2008, IMR in the US ranks __
High; 27th
African Americans had ___ the __ mortality rate of whites, in 2007
1.9 times; sudden infant death syndrome
The Major Cause of IMR has been linked to ____.
Environmental Factors
The IMR accounts for the majority of deaths among individuals less than ____
18 years of age
The decline in the IMR is closely linked to both
Advances in the medical care, changes in the environment
The leading cause of death among school-aged children is
Injury
____ mortality in African American has been most closely linked to ___
Postneonatal; Environmental Factors
Most Physician Visits by children aged 19 or younger are to
Family; General Practitioners
Mortality Rates for Blacks in the US are increasing for
Adolescents
The plan to reduce infant mortality rates include
� A network between health care experts and minority communities to encourage healthy behaviors by pregnant women and parents of infants.
� Research that will determine the cause of SIDS, develop effective strategies to identify at-risk infants more preci
Problems in measures taken in the management and prevention of infant health
� Managing high-risk pregnancies
� Managing high-risk newborns
� Preventing unwanted pregnancies among high-risk parents
Recently, the ratio of black to white IMR was recorded as __ in NJ, one of the highest in the nation.
2.3
The following is correct regarding practices of health education:
The single parent family is not a target of study to determine its effectiveness in health education
The most common reason for delay in seeking medical treatment is:
The denial of significance or threat of symptoms