Help Babies Survive Their 1st Year of Life
Donate Now!!! You Can Make A Difference
Close Your Eyes and think of the most important person (or persons) in your life.
Now imagine that this person never made it to one year of age.
Healthy Start works with pregnant women to reduce the death of an infant before
the age of one - called infant mortality. A country's health is measured by its
infant mortality rate.
Healthy Start has made a difference; Healthy Start
clients have better birth weights and more survive. As a matter of fact in 2005
and 2006 Healthy Start met the Surgeon General's Healthy People 2010 goal for
very low birth weight of .9% of live births.
The mission of Healthy Start is to improve the
health and well-being of pregnant and postpartum women, their babies, families
and communities by providing comprehensive, supportive services in the
communities where they live.
Please
Donate to Healthy Start to Help Continue This
Life Saving Work
$300 will pay for one month of transportation for clients
$100 will pay for one crib for a client
$100 will pay for one high chair
$80 will pay for one month of baby food for one infant
$300 will pay for one month's rent or BGE bill for one client
$500 will pay one month's rent and upkeep of the Healthy Start Van
Definitions
Infant Mortality is the death of an infant before the age of one - measured as the actual number of deaths per 1000 live births.
Most babies that die are born prematurely and have a
very low birth weight. This can happen due to infections, smoking, stress,
unstable living conditions, environmental factors, poor health of the mother,
alcohol and drug use, lack of prenatal clinical monitoring, poor nutrition, late
prenatal care, poor prenatal care, non-aggressive or non-urgent care, and
reasons unknown.
A baby born weighing less than 3.3 pounds - 25% of
these babies die before the age of one - measured as a percentage of total live
births.
A baby born weighing less than 5.5 pounds - measured
as a percentage of total live births.
What is Maryland's infant mortality rate? 8.0 (CY
2007)
What is Baltimore's infant mortality Rate? 11.3 (CY 2007)
What is Baltimore's African American infant mortality rate? 15.5 (CY 2007)
What is Healthy Start's client infant mortality rate? 5.3 (CY 2007) -
Wow,
Great,
Stupendous!
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