Georgia gets a grade of F from a non-profit group’s new report on premature birth rates. The study from the March of Dimes shows the state had a pre-term birth rate of 13.6 percent in 2005. As comparison, the low-end of the scale nationally was around 9-percent in Vermont. The worst was Mississippi’s rate of almost 19-percent.
The report mentions lack of insurance and smoking as main contributing factors to premature births.
The report shows Georgia is well behind a goal set by federal officials of a rate of no higher than 7-and-a-half percent to be reached by 2010.
The report mentions lack of insurance and smoking as main contributing factors to premature births.
The report shows Georgia is well behind a goal set by federal officials of a rate of no higher than 7-and-a-half percent to be reached by 2010.
