INFANT MORTALITY RATE IN THE USA MELISSA HULL PRODUCER, AUTHOR, SPEAKER, ARTIST, CONSULTANT
Copyright by Melissa Hull When it comes to infant mortality, it is something that remains rela-
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tively high in the USA among many other countries out there with a
data has been
very high standard of living. When looking at the standard of living
collected
out there it is very shocking since the USA has a double rating when
the world bank
comparing to other country out there like Ireland or Norway. What
and has been ana-
that means is that there is a very high number in the USA which is
lyzed for many years to try and figure out what the USA is doing so differ-
6/1000 who will pass in the USA and the rate has not really gone
ently. Part of the reason that the mortality rate is so high is the fact that
down very much since 2012 and that is a cause for concern. The high-
there are many doctors who are not paying attention to guidelines. Doc-
est rates of issues are always in the southern states such as: Alabama,
tors may be inducing pregnancies too soon; they may also be in the mid-
Mississippi, and Louisiana. The lowest rates of infant mortality are in
dle of something that is unplanned and there is not equal healthcare that
states where there are more expensive healthcare options like Iowa
is available across the USA.
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and Vermont. What that also means is that there needs to be more dedication to making What makes this statistic so high? The real reason for the high num-
sure that there is plenty of time for gestation. In addition, to that there
ber comes from many reasons but one of them is that there is a very
are also many locations that will implant a woman with more than one
high number of births that are below weight and that means that
embryo which also leads to many issues. That happens all the time with
there are many babies that die from not weighing enough. In 2003,
IVF and can lead to a situation in which there is going to be a very high
the number of children who were underweight accounted for 36% of
rate of death. A death is 4 times as likely when there is more than one
premature deaths in children. The number is the highest in African
baby I the womb at a time. That gets very high when there are twins,
American women who have a death rate of 11 in 1,000 births and that
triplets, and quintuplets, it can be as many as 26 times higher.
also means that there is a very low rate in the world with other countries like Cuba who have around 3 our of every 1,000 babies who pass. In the rest of the world there are very low numbers. In France, the
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infant mortality rate is 4 out of 1,000 which in Ireland, Israel, and
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Greece it is around 3 out of 1,000. Norway and Japan have reached
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record low numbers at 2 out of 1,000.
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