Exam 18: Maternal and Child Health As a Social Problem Maternal and Infant Mortality

In the United States, black and Hispanic babies born on the same day as white babies have a higher risk of death as infants.

Whats the appropriate description of the term? -Are required to reach women who do not seek early prenatal care

whats the congenital malformation to the appropriate description. -Once a common cause of deafness and mental retardation is now prevented by immunization

Infants are more likely to develop respiratory infections or die of SIDS when family members smoke in the home.

The generally lower socioeconomic status of African Americans in the United States accounts in large part for their higher infant mortality rate.

Alcohol is a ___________________ and fetal alcohol syndrome is a risk for children of mothers who are problem drinkers.

The IMR in the United States is the 27th lowest in the world.

Better educated women tend to breastfeed at higher rates.

The nutritional side of maternal and child health programs began in the 1890s with ______________________.

Blacks and Hispanics receive prenatal care at a rate about 10% to 15% lower than whites.

____________________ is a state that occurs when persons perceive that demands exceed their ability to cope.

Whats the appropriate description of the term? -Account for more than 20 percent of infant deaths and are preventable in many cases

Prenatal care should wait until a woman is pregnant.

The use of ______________________ during pregnancy increases the risk of congenital heart defects and neural tube defects.

The infant mortality rate in America is very high compared with that of other industrialized countries.

Apparently for biological reasons, teenage mothers are more likely to deliver premature infants than older women of the same socioeconomic status.

Which of the following is the most public health-oriented kind of care the medical profession provides?

whats the congenital malformation to the appropriate description. -May be caused in part by a deficiency in folic acid, a B-vitamin present in green leafy vegetables, dried beans, liver, orange juice, and grapefruit juice

From 1986 to 2016, the rate of breastfeeding of infants discharged from the hospital rose by about ______________________ %.

Which of the following, which is highly toxic to the developing nervous system, is a common contaminant in the American inner city, both from deteriorating paint and old plumbing?