Sentences with phrase «child health outcomes nationwide»

The following organizations share Healthy Start's goal of improving maternal and child health outcomes nationwide.

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Implications for Public Health Practice: Because of the documented benefits of breastfeeding to both mothers and children, and because experiences in the first hours and days after birth help determine later breastfeeding outcomes, improved hospital policies and practices could increase rates of breastfeeding nationwide, contributing to improved child hHealth Practice: Because of the documented benefits of breastfeeding to both mothers and children, and because experiences in the first hours and days after birth help determine later breastfeeding outcomes, improved hospital policies and practices could increase rates of breastfeeding nationwide, contributing to improved child healthhealth.

Listen in to part one of two as Dr. Arthur James, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The OSU College of Medicine, and co-director of the Ohio Better Birth Outcomes project at Nationwide Children's Hospital and also co-director of the Ohio Department of Health's Collaborative to Prevent Infant Mortality, talks about the main contributing factors of infant mortality in the United States.

As the membership association for Healthy Start programs nationwide, NHSA promotes the development of community - based maternal and child health programs, particularly those addressing the issues of infant mortality, low birth weight and racial disparities in perinatal outcomes.