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Monday, August 10th, 2015

U.S. Infant Mortality Rate Stays High, Report Finds

Author:     Maggie Fox
Source:     NBC News
Publication Date:     Aug 6 2015, 9:37 am ET
 Link: U.S. Infant Mortality Rate Stays High, Report Finds
Stephan:   We pay several times what most industrialized nations pay for health care, and we have rotten outcomes. What I personally find particularly objectionable is what happens to our children. Here is the latest on that. As a nation we ought to be ashamed. A child born in Rural North Carolina has less chance of living to its first birthday than a child born in Botswana. No other major developed nation has such poor mortality statistics about its children. And yet, except for Bernie Sanders no public political figure will tell the truth about the Illness Profit System.
Credit: www.womenandinfants.org

Credit: www.womenandinfants.org

The U.S. infant mortality rate has stalled, the latest government report finds, giving Americans one of the worst rates in the developed world.

Just under six out of every 1,000 babies died at birth or in the first year of life in the U.S. in 2013, triple the rate of Japan or Norway and double the rate of Ireland, Israel or Italy, the latest report from the National Center for Health Statistics finds. (emphasis added) The rate is barely changed from 2012, although it’s down 13 percent from 2005.

The highest rates were in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana; the lowest infant mortality rates were in Iowa, Vermont and Massachusetts, the NCHS, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found.

“The number of infant deaths was 23,446 in 2013, a decline of 208 infant deaths from 2012,” the CDC team wrote in the report.

“One of the reasons the U.S. is so high is that we have a high preterm birth rate.”

Birth defects were the single biggest cause, but the report finds a high rate of low birthweight babies and preterm births.

“In 2013, 36 […]

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