Essay On SIDS

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Public Health Problem: The problem of SIDS, also known as “Sudden Death Infant Syndrome” consists of an increasing and overwhelming amount of sudden deaths for infants under the age of one through various environmental and physical risk factors.1 About 4,500 infants die suddenly and unexpectedly—which calls for a case investigation, a complete autopsy, an examination of the infant’s death scene and a review of any kind of clinical or medical history researched on the parent of the infant.2 Sudden Death Infant Syndrome is ultimately difficult to determine because there are no symptoms or apparent warning signs since the infant seems healthy to the human eye before death occurs. During the period, 1983-1994, it was the leading cause of infant mortality in the United States for about one-third of deaths in America.1 This syndrome was …show more content…
If the community does not intervene much in the future, it would be susceptible to a higher rate of infant mortality with unknown possible causes and an uneducated population on how to fix the problem. If the public is not educated on these measures and public health systems and researchers are not conducting more research and experiments on solving this public health problem, it will become inevitable to solve such an unknown problem. Public health systems should take information found in the past and apply it to the knowledge that exists in the present to make it better and more informative in the future, which is why health care systems are constantly changing and becoming better by spreading awareness. The public health community aims to prevent disease and not cure it—which would be helpful in sustaining a low mortality of SIDS cases. Problems like these should be dealt with automatically, and not when it may be too late in the