Improving Pre-pregnancy Health Is Key to Reducing Infant Mortality

Improving pre-pregnancy health is key to reducing infant mortality.

Infant and Young Child Feeding: a Key area to Improve Child Health

  Good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. For millions of chi...

CDC Grand Rounds: Public Health Approaches to Reducing U.S. Infant Mortality

Infant mortality is defined as the death of an infant before his or her first birthday. The infant mortality rate (IMR) measures this occurrence per 1,000 live births. In addition to being a key marker of maternal and child health, the IMR has been called the most sensitive indicator of overall societal health. In the United States, substantial progress has been made over the last 50 years in r...

Improving health in the United States: Oral health is key to overall health.

The oral health-systemic connection has been well documented for many conditions, with strong evidence in 2017 connecting oral health and rheumatoid arthritis. 9 The results of this analysis indicated a strong correlation between dental visits and overall selfrated health, and this relationship is getting stronger over time. In other words, states in which adults are more likely to visit the de...

Reducing neonatal mortality: a need to address pre-term births.