High-Risk Groups — Definition and Identification
- 5 August 1965
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 273 (6) , 308-313
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196508052730606
Abstract
WHEN President Kennedy signed Public Law 88.156 on October 24, 1963, attention was focused on the urgent need to enlarge maternal and child-health services. The President's Panel on Mental Retardation, whose report1 provided the framework for Public Law 88.156, pointed to the fact that a reduction in the incidence of mental retardation would be achieved only by a comprehensive attack on all factors pertinent to child growth and human development. The report highlighted the fact that mental retardation and other disabilities were more frequent among groups receiving inadequate maternal and child-health services.2 3 4 5 This being so, it must be assumed that . . .Keywords
This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Influence of Weight and Gestation on Perinatal and Neonatal Mortality by Ethnic GroupAmerican Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1964