Annual Report of Program Activities: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Fiscal Year 1975 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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9780483838956: Annual Report of Program Activities: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Fiscal Year 1975 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Annual Report of Program Activities: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Fiscal Year 1975

Institute programs are directed toward, and have a beneficial impact on, the entire population of the United States. The following statistics provide an indication of the health problems and needs that nichd research aims to prevent and alleviate. Out Of every infants born in the United States during 1973, 17. 7 died before they were a year old, accounting for about 55, 000 deaths. Thirteen other developed countries of the world had infant mortality rates that were lower. Near_ly 60 percent of infant deaths occurred in infants that weighed less than 5 5 lbs. At birth. These low birth weight infants were either born too soon. Or were born on_ time b_ut too small. The number of low birth weight infants born in 197-3 totalled. 23 386. Those that did_ not die will be the major contributors to the populat on of brain_ damaged, neuro logically disordered, and growth retarded persons who are a burden to them selves their society.

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