{"id":105156,"date":"2023-08-07T07:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=105156"},"modified":"2023-08-08T08:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T12:17:16","slug":"georgia-ranked-as-one-of-the-worst-places-to-have-a-baby-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=105156","title":{"rendered":"Georgia ranked as one of the worst places to have a baby. Here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Gist:<\/strong> Georgia ranks low in <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-and-worst-states-to-have-a-baby\/6513\">WalletHub&#8217;s 2023 report on the best and worst states to have a baby<\/a>, with particularly concerning figures in areas such as infant mortality rate, low birth-weight rate, and availability of pediatricians and family medicine physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What Happened?:<\/strong> Personal-finance website WalletHub released a comprehensive report comparing the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 31 key measures of cost, health care accessibility, and baby-friendliness. The data set ranges from hospital conventional-delivery charges to annual average infant-care costs to pediatricians per capita.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By The Numbers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Georgia ranks 37th in infant mortality rate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The state is 49th in the rate of low birth-weight.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It stands at 22nd in midwives &amp; OB-GYNs per capita.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Georgia is 46th in pediatricians &amp; family medicine physicians per capita.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is 38th in child-care centers per capita.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The state ranks 34th in parental-leave policy score.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why It Matters:<\/strong> The report&#8217;s findings highlight the need for improvements in Georgia&#8217;s healthcare system, particularly in areas related to infant care and maternal health. The low rankings in infant mortality rate and low birth-weight rate are particularly concerning, indicating potential issues with prenatal care and overall healthcare accessibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=18]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gist: Georgia ranks low in WalletHub&#8217;s 2023 report on the best and worst states to have a baby, with particularly concerning figures in areas such as infant mortality rate, low birth-weight rate, and availability of pediatricians and family medicine physicians. What Happened?: Personal-finance website WalletHub released a comprehensive report comparing the 50 states and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11786],"tags":[8782,13789,13791,12168],"class_list":["post-105156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-georgia","tag-maternal-health","tag-maternal-mortality","tag-state","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}