Indiana summit studies high infant mortality rate
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One of the speakers will be Maura Hanke, whose first son, Charlie, died from sudden infant death syndrome in 2010 at three weeks of age. She co foundedpatagonia better sweater coat java brown Charlie Kids Foundation, which works to increase safe sleep awareness and education to reduce the nation SIDS mortality rate.
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That rate measures deaths among babies in their first year of life and is a key indicator of a state well being.
don want any babies dying, and certainly we take note of the fact that we are over the national average, and so that one of the most important things educating about a problem, Adams told the Evansville Courier Press.
Infant mortality and low birth weight babies are linked to women who smoke during pregnancy, and Indiana has patagonia baby nano puff jacket review1a hipatagonia guide jacket 2 totegher rate than the national average of women who use tobacco while pregnant.
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