Infant mortality

struggles, the efforts made greatly improved women’s access to healthcare. Maternal and infant death rates began to improve along with doctors’ attitudes towards their female patients. During a time period plagued with an environment of extreme racial discrimination, African American women had to overcome many obstacles to gain access to quality health care. From 1900 to 1935, “infant and maternal mortality rates were higher among blacks than whites in the United States.”…

For multiple decades pregnant women, mostly women of color, who are living in Baltimore, Maryland have not received proper prenatal care. Although a significant number of pregnant women within the city typically initiate prenatal visits within the first trimester, there are still many of those women who are receiving late or no care. It has been noted that lack of transportation is one of the causes for women initiating prenatal care visits at later stages of pregnancy or not at all. Therefore,…

individuals and societies. John A. Robertson argues that infants are persons, but believes we have no obligation to treat defective infants. Also, we have H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. who argues that infants are not persons, and believes there is a duty not to treat them if treatment prolongs a painful life. Altogether, Robertson and Engelhardt both have different views of the quality of life one possesses. John A. Robertson rejects the claim that infants are not persons. Robertson says, "The…

delivery and a healthy child. However, many infants are diagnosed with illnesses, abnormalities, or diseases after birth. During Riley’s stay in the intensive care unit, he was cared for by multiple physicians, including…

Caring for a sick infant can be emotionally draining even when it is your profession. One profession that works with sick infants is neonatal nurses. A neonatal nurse “…works with newborn infants born with a variety of problems ranging from prematurity, birth defects, infection, cardiac malformations, and surgical problems. The neonatal period is defined as the first month of life; however, these newborns are often sick for months” ("What Is Neonatal Nursing?”). They can provide care in…

bell that rings each time an infant or a baby dies. Most of these kids die unnamed and during birth but the fortunate babies who do survive will mostly last two or three months. Alto do Gruzeior is one of the three counties in shantytown that has the poorest representation of the third world countries, shantytown has mostly farms, ranches, sugar plantations and mills. Residents don’t get to live long enough; their life expectancy is only forty years. Mostly because infants and babies don’t…

developmental domain of this study is emotional and social. In order to qualify as a participant of the study, infants must be healthy and singleton requiring no neonatal intensive care. 90 infants were randomly assigned to either the control condition or the condition being tested. Of the total of 90 infants, 57 were being studied using the still face model between 3 and 36 hours after birth. 33 infants were observed as the control condition…

Birthmarks are blemishes on the skin that may occur at birth or after birth. Over eighty percent of babies are prone to have birthmarks. Birthmarks are not only hereditary, and some may be cancerous. There are two main tops of birthmarks; vascular and pigmented. This have several subdivisions that can be identified by shape, color, and size. While some birthmarks may fade out as the child grows, others are permanent and even grow. Depending on the type of birthmark is how treatment and severity…

APGAR is a quick test perform on a baby 1 and 5 minutes after birth. The 1-minute score determines how well the baby tolerated the birth process, and the 5-minutes score tells the doctor how well the baby is doing outside the mother’s womb. The APGAR is to determine whether a newborn needs breathing or is having heart trouble, to make sure that the baby is healthy, the score has to be of 7, 8, 9, these means that the baby is in good health. Any score lower than 7is a sign that the baby need…

the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in a hospital. NICUs are nurseries within hospitals that supply continuous care to ill or premature babies. The nurses and other health care workers are trained to provide the best possible care in order for these infants to get better. However, the NICU is often feared by health care workers. The health care workers are often afraid of the emotions and bonds that they may form between the parents of the ill baby or the baby themselves. This often frightens the…