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A Reassessment of the SIDS Back to Sleep Campaign |
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Pelligra, Ralph ; Doman, Glen ; Leisman, Gerry |
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TheScientificWorldJOURNAL |
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2005 |
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5 |
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550-557 |
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Review Article |
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Joav Merrick |
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Medical Care
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Child Health & Human Development
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10.1100/tsw.2005.71 |
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SIDS, public health, medical research, epidemiology, public health, child health, infancy, United States |
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The Back to Sleep Campaign was initiated in 1994 to implement the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) recommendation that infants be placed in the nonprone sleeping position to reduce the risk of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). This paper offers a challenge to the Back to Sleep Campaign (BTSC) from two perspectives: (1) the questionable validity of SIDS mortality and risk statistics, and (2) the BTSC as human experimentation rather than as confirmed preventive therapy.
The principal argument that initiated the BTSC and that continues to justify its existence is the observed parallel declines in the number of infants placed in the prone sleeping position and the number of reported SIDS deaths. We are compelled to challenge both the implied causal relationship between these observations and the SIDS mortality statistics themselves. |
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