TY - JOUR T1 - Addressing U.S. infant mortality through Healthy Start programs JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - 3 LP - 3 VL - 43 IS - 2 AU - Adewale Troutman Y1 - 2013/03/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/43/2/3.1.abstract N2 - In 2008, the World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health issued a report aimed at closing gaps in health inequalities within a generation. The report affirmed that the development of a society can be measured by the health of its populations, the fairness of distribution of services and resources and the degree of protection from disadvantage as a result of ill health. There is perhaps no more sensitive indicator of health and development than infant mortality. ER -