What is Behind the Rising Rates of Preterm Birth in the United States?

We review three decades of unsuccessful efforts by public policy-makers in the United States to develop programs to lower the rate of preterm birth. We analyze why these efforts had been unsuccessful. Finally, we will speculate about whether something has changed in the last few years that might fin...

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Autores principales: Lantos, John D., Lauderdale, Diane S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Rambam Health Care Campus 2011
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Rambam Forum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3678806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23908823
http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10065
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spelling pubmed-36788062013-08-01 What is Behind the Rising Rates of Preterm Birth in the United States? Lantos, John D. Lauderdale, Diane S. Rambam Maimonides Med J Rambam Forum We review three decades of unsuccessful efforts by public policy-makers in the United States to develop programs to lower the rate of preterm birth. We analyze why these efforts had been unsuccessful. Finally, we will speculate about whether something has changed in the last few years that might finally bend the curve and reverse the trend of a steadily rising preterm birth rate. Rambam Health Care Campus 2011-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3678806/ /pubmed/23908823 http://dx.doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10065 Text en Copyright: © 2011 Lantos and Lauderdale. This is an open-access article. All its content, except where otherwise noted, is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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