Cincinnati Health Department home visiting program cuts infant mortality rate

The Cincinnati Health Department released an analysis showing that the infant mortality rate for women participating its home visiting prental care program was more than half overall infant mortality rate in Cincinnati, 5.3 deaths per 1,000 live births compared to 13.1 deaths per 1,000 live births (Source: "Care cuts mortality in children," The Enquirer, April 19, 2008).  According to Cincinnati's Health Commissioner Noble Maseru, "It's all the monitoring and going into the homes and talking to the mothers and providing that human interaction that is vital to having success with the mothers and their newborns. Our outreach workers are very key to the process, and their work is integral if we're going to keep lowering that infant mortality rate."