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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Better educated women tend to breastfeed at higher rates.

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

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

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

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

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Prenatal care should wait until a woman is pregnant.

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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?

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