Throughout the world, first-day mortality claims over a million babies per day, as reported this week by Save the Children. According to the organization’s “State of the World’s Mothers” report, newborn mortality now represents 43 percent of the global under-5 mortality. An estimated 36 percent of these newborn deaths occur on the day the child is
Why Does The US Lead The Western World In First-Day Infant Deaths?
Hint: It has a lot to do with poverty, immigration laws and a lack of health care coverage.