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The Case Of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

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When there is a problem in ones life whether that be the country, at their job, or within their own families everyone’s first instinct is what can be done to fix it. An intervention is an action taken to improve a situation. As defined by Public Health 101: Health People-Healthy Populations, an intervention is defined as “the full range of strategies designed to protect health and prevent disease, disability and death.” Thus, high quality evidence needs to be based on the research, which can establish efficacy in one particular population, but also on the effectiveness of the intervention in the specific population. (Riegelman and Kirkwood, 2015). For many public health issues interventions play a crucial role in getting such issues under control. In the case of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in Native American populations infants were ranked second highest in SIDS deaths in the U.S. at 8.7 per 1000 live births (Alexander, Wingate &Boulet, 2008, p. 5). The cause of SIDS is unknown at the moment but there are a multitude of ways parents can help prevent and reduce the risk of their child dying from SIDS.

Intervention I: SIDS Prevention through the Back-to-Sleep Campaign

The major risk factor of SIDS is recognized to be prone sleeping. The Back-to-Sleep (BTS) campaign was brought on when research found that parents and caregivers were wrongly informed that their children were safer and at lower risk for SIDS if they were placed in the prone sleeping position. Around

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