Not exact matches
Low birthweight is a major predictor of infant
mortality,
subsequent disease, or developmental disabilities.
This example does not assume
subsequent investment or withdrawals and also does not include
mortality and expense charges, sales charges, and administrative fees typically associated with variable annuities; inclusion of these items would
lower the performance shown.
The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses, tested with a primarily white sample, produced a 48 percent treatment - control difference in the overall rates of substantiated rates of child abuse and neglect (irrespective of risk) and an 80 percent difference for families in which the mothers were
low - income and unmarried at registration.21 Corresponding rates of child maltreatment were too
low to serve as a viable outcome in a
subsequent trial of the program in a large sample of urban African - Americans, 20 but program effects on children's health - care encounters for serious injuries and ingestions at child age 2 and reductions in childhood
mortality from preventable causes at child age 9 were consistent with the prevention of abuse and neglect.20, 22
Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3
mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and
low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and
subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11