Interconception care : a new role for the pediatrician

The infant mortality rate continues to be higher in this country than in many other industrialized nations.1 Federal, state, and local governments have responded by spending large amounts of money on attempts to reduce the infant mortality rate, and expert groups, task forces, and commissions have i...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 1994-02, Vol.93 (2), p.327-329
Main Authors: KLERMAN, L. V, REYNOLDS, D. W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Family Planning Services
Family size
Female
Health and social institutions
Health aspects
Health counseling
Health participants
Humans
Infant mortality
Medical sciences
Methods
Mothers
Pediatricians
Pediatrics
Physician's Role
Physicians
Planning
Practice
Preconception Care
Pregnancy
Prenatal development
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Spouse Abuse - prevention & control
Substance-Related Disorders - therapy
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Summary:The infant mortality rate continues to be higher in this country than in many other industrialized nations.1 Federal, state, and local governments have responded by spending large amounts of money on attempts to reduce the infant mortality rate, and expert groups, task forces, and commissions have issued reports on the subject.2-4 Until recently, however, there seemed little that the primary care pediatrician—as distinct from the neonatologist—could do about this problem, because approximately two thirds of infant deaths occur in the neonatal period (before the 28th day of life and often before the neonate leaves the hospital). But this situation should change as attention is increasingly shifted from what can be done after the baby is born to what can be done before the baby is conceived.
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.93.2.327