Program Tries to Improve Infant Mortality Rates
Program Tries to Improve Infant Mortality Rates
Special program offers special services to improve a woman's chance at giving birth to a healthy baby.
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" Florida healthy start offers pregnant women prenatal care diet advice. Drug and alcohol counseling and other services to improve the woman's chances on delivering a healthy baby twenty year old how many Hadley says her three week old baby is the perfect example of how the healthy start program can make a difference. I would not eating well I would not sleeping well and I went yeah no definitely not going down -- right pad I found out about the program and they got me on the right track the program was created by the legislature twenty years ago and Florida's infant mortality rate. Has dropped significantly. Since then. Governor Rick Scott the budget proposal does not cut healthy starts four million dollar budget but he doesn't mean the program. From the department of health to the department of management services. Advocates are now trying to block that move. Diana Gonzales NBC Miami."
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