World Prematurity Day is an observance held on the 17th of November.[1] Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely each year accounting for more than one in 10 of all babies born worldwide.[2] It is estimated that the world’s 39 highest-income countries could cut around 58 000 premature births annually by implementing interventions to prevent preterm births, amounting to roughly US$3.0 billion in economic cost savings.[3]World Prematurity Day aims to raise awareness for prematurity and the concerns of preterm babies and their families worldwide because infants born preterm represent the largest child patient group.[1]World Prematurity day was started in 2011 by the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI), March of Dimes, Africa-based Little Big Souls International Foundation, and the National Premmie Foundation of Australia and has since been taken place in more than 50 countries.[4]
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 04:10:01 +0000
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