Health Care and Infant Mortality: The Real Story

Yo Steve, Parental lifestyle choices, e.g., substance abuse, smoking and obesity, would be improved through more frequent contact with care providers and, therefore, by easier access to health care. Also, BTW unwed mothers and teens have worse access prenatal care- so lowering barriers to health care would help them out too. Yeah, it woud help, for example, by lowering the low birth weight by 1 percent. So that'd reduce the national average from 7.7 to 6.7. That's a lot of babies with improved health!