AAP News Vol. 1 No. 9 September 1985, p. 2
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Editorial says changes in society needed to reduce mortality

Lowering childhood mortality rates demands not only improved medical care, but "changes in society as well as in family and personal habits," AAP President Robert J. Haggerty, M.D., wrote in a recent New England Journal of Medicine editorial.

Dr. Haggerty noted that the Medicaid program and various maternal and child health projects have resulted in approximate equality of access to health care by different socioeconomic groups. "Yet differences in mortality still persist between classes," he stated.