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A US doctor and a development consultant visited Iran in May to study a primary healthcare system that has cut infant mortality by more than two-thirds since the Islamic revolution in 1979.
Then, in October, five top Iranian doctors, including a senior official at the health ministry in Tehran, were quietly brought to Mississippi to advise on how the system could be implemented there.
There are some photos on this National Institutes of Health newsletter site:
Iran’s health houses provide model for Mississippi Delta (http://www.fic.nih.gov/news/publications/global_health_matters/2009/1209_health-house.htm - broken link)
An unexpected collaboration, but certainly an interesting one. I hope it yields good outcomes for rural Mississippi.
The infant mortality rate often cited in the US is BS. Advanced medicine and techniques push these numbers up, whereas the baby is going to have no chance at being born alive elsewhere the chances for a live birth and survival are much greater here. You have many babies birthed alive that are quite sick, severely premature or have many medical complications.
The low infant mortality rate often cited in the US is BS.
Well, it's pretty bad in the Mississippi Delta region. I think the problems in that area in particular go deeper than different tabulations of live births. You have to remember that plain old life expectancy in that area is barely above 70 years.
The infant mortality rate often cited in the US is BS. Advanced medicine and techniques push these numbers up, whereas the baby is going to have no chance at being born alive elsewhere the chances for a live birth and survival are much greater here. You have many babies birthed alive that are quite sick, severely premature or have many medical complications.
Then one would expect the US to have a lower stillborn rate than other countries. That doesn't seem to be the case when compared to other developed countries.
This is just cover for something more sinister. Mississippi doesn't want to copy Iran's healthcare, but their religious theocracy. Instead of Islamic it will be Christian but everything else will be the same.
If Americans can read this and not feel shame then they are incapable of shame. The richest country in the world with the greatest technology in the world and yet we need to rely on Iran to help save our babies. Tell me again how we don't need REAL health care reform.
If Americans can read this and not feel shame then they are incapable of shame. The richest country in the world with the greatest technology in the world and yet we need to rely on Iran to help save our babies.
Are you implying that one needs to be rich and have the greatest technology in the world to have a good idea? Or is their something else behind your post?
Why should Americans feel ashamed to realize that someone else had a good idea and adapt that idea to our own system?
There is a much higher rate of infant mortality in the black community. It isn't something frequently mentioned due to sensitivity. However, this is a factor (among others) in infant mortality in the US -- it's magnified in the Deep South. I can't recall ever reading about a specific cause, but if you search it out, you'll find it.
Then one would expect the US to have a lower stillborn rate than other countries. That doesn't seem to be the case when compared to other developed countries.
Again I would suggest it's better medicine, a baby that might be aborted or never make it full term elsewhere may actually have a chance at life.
As far as the issues here that can be fixed I think the major issue is education and mothers not taking advantage of what is available to them. My mother has been a OB nurses for more than 30 years and primarily deals with birthing classes, actually helped start the original ones in this area back in he 70's. The people that show up for them are usually educated people or the people least likely to need them since they are more likely to take the initiative and educate themselves.
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