Nurse-family partnership reduces preventable mortality

Tuesday, July 8, 2014 - 20:34 in Health & Medicine

Low-income mothers and their first-born children who received home visits from nurses were less likely to die from preventable causes during a two-decade period, according to a report. Beginning in 1990, this trial enrolled low-income, primarily African-American mothers living in disadvantaged neighborhoods, and assessed maternal and child mortality for over two decades until 2011.

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