Health in Columbus Hill
Health in Columbus Hill
This chapter criticizes the health treatment in Columbus Hill for tuberculosis. The efficacy of the AICP's early syphilis work among Columbus Hill's black mothers appears questionable at best. A study shows that the maternal syphilis tests and their highly toxic treatments during and after birth may have cost infant lives. Thus, the salience of the AICP's argument that maternal and congenital syphilis represented half the stillborn and neonatal deaths could easily lead to a half-empty, half-full conclusion. In addition, while the neighborhood experienced a small yet significant decrease in infant deaths from syphilitic infections, this cannot explain the enormous decline in infant and maternal deaths that occurred in the AICP's first year of research.
Keywords: tuberculosis, Columbus Hill, AICP, syphilis, congenital syphilis, syphilitic infections
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