PUBH 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Austin, Texas, Videotelephony, List Price
12 Feb 2017
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Infants die before their first bday in sc at 2-3x the rate of that of the nation: this death rate mirrors many undeveloped rations. Urban areas of sc have world-class medical facilities and lower infant death rates. Country areas face increasing death rates for a few reasons: doctors and hospitals flee to countryside, medical costs threaten to double, state refuses to extend medicaid benefits to half a million poor. Toxic mix of poverty, chronically sick mothers, premature births, and barriers to health care. More than 200 infants have died each of past 3 years in rural areas, many from preventable cause. Since 2000, 6,696 south carolina babies have died before their first bday: more than that which died in the 9/11 attacks. The mothers of over of the infants that died last year received little or no prenatal care: the death rate for these babies is more than 5x the statewide rate.
