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This 5 page paper provides an overview of a public health view on the issue of infant mortality rates in teen mothers and the impacts of a new policy perspective. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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throughout the world. Though one might assume that developed nations have much lower infant mortality rates than Third World nations, research suggests that countries like the United States demonstrate
surprisingly high infant mortality rates. In 1996, comparative statistical data collected by the March of Dimes stated that the United States, one of the most prosperous countries in the
developed world, had one of the higher infant mortality rates, while countries like Japan, Singapore and Sweden were ranked in the top 10 in terms of low infant mortality rates
(March of Dimes, 2002). In fact, researchers found that the US had an infant mortality rate of 7.2 (deaths) per 1,000 live births, a rate comparable to countries like
Cuba (8.0), Slovakia (9.9) and Kuwait (11.5) (March of Dimes, 2002). These figures raised some substantial questions about the social, medical and economic issues that impacted the health of
infants in the United States, and also brought into question the other mitigating factors that determined the United States ranking. Statement of the Problem Some 8 years
later, the United States has not made evident strides in improving their overall standing and still has significantly higher infant mortality rates than many countries in the world. At
the same time, researchers have also argued that in the year 2002, children in the United States are somewhat less likely to die during infancy than in previous years, and
attribute this to better quality medical care, reductions in the child poverty rate (16% in 2000), increased immunization of children (76 percent in 2000), and improved nutrition (Bock and Marsiglia,
2002). In 1999, the infant mortality rate had dropped from 7.2 (1996-1998) to 7.0 deaths per 100 live births in 2000 (Bock and Marsiglia, 2002). Researchers have posited
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