Opportunities for Success: Cost Effective Programs for Children : Update, 1988 : a Report of the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1988 - 72 pages |
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$1 investment $1 spent ALAN WHEAT associated babies benefits Centers for Disease chil Child Health children ages Children's Defense Fund Colorado Committee on Children compensatory education comprehensive prenatal Cost Effectiveness cost-benefit decrease Department of Education diphtheria Disease Control dren early intervention employability Employment and Training enrolled EPSDT estimated Evaluation families grade grams Head Start High/Scope Human Services impact improved incidence of low increased Infants and Children infants born Institute of Medicine Job Corps low birthweight births low birthweight infants low-income women Maternal MATTHEW F measles Medicaid Medicaid costs million mothers mumps National newborn non-WIC nutrition parent involvement perinatal pertussis polio pregnancy pregnant women preschool education Program for Women program participants Project Public Health received adequate prenatal reduction Research risk rubella saved showed significantly special education Special Supplemental Food Statistics summer learning loss Supplemental Food Program tetanus U.S. Department vaccine WIC participation WIC program youth employment
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Page 21 - ... percent, the increased expenditures for prenatal services would be approximately equal to a single year of cost savings in direct medical care expenditures for the low birthweight infants born to the target population. If the rate were reduced to 9 percent (the 1990 goal set by the Surgeon General for a maximum low birthweight rate among high-risk groups) , every additional dollar spent for prenatal care within the target group would save $3.38 in the total cost of caring for low birthweight...
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