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THE BEST MEANS OF COMBATING INFANT MORTALITY
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My principal duty and intense pleasure is to tender my thanks to the House of Delegates which selected me for the highest honor in the gift of the medical profession of America, and to my colleagues of all the fifty states who were good enough to approve of its choice. Nor am I under less obligation for their attendance on this occasion to such citizens, men and women, as by their presence here exhibit their interest in things medical and socio-political. My everlasting gratitude is due for the mode in which this great honor was conferred on me. Being duly aware of the small measure of my merits, I was overjoyed to have reason to believe that I owed my election to my lack of efforts to secure it. My democratic training and the gentlemanly nature of thirty-five thousand members of the American Medical Association, like the principled citizens of
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“In fact, contemporary studies provide strong evidence that mortality rates were higher among mothers attended by a doctor than among mothers attended by a trained midwife (Jacobi 1912; Mendenhall 1917; Levy 1918, 1923; Sobel 1918).”
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- Authors
- JACOBI, A.
- Affiliations
- American Medical Association (US)
- Corresponding author
- JACOBI, ABRAHAM
- Venue
- Journal of the American Medical Association
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 1912-06-08
- Volume
- LVIII
- Issue
- 23
- Pages
- 1735
- ISSN
- 0002-9955 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2090655499
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2020: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 4.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- zenodo.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- Locations
- JAMA (publishedVersion)
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Global Maternal and Child Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Child and Adolescent Health
- Keywords
- infant mortality, infant mortality reduction, public health policy, medical profession
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