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Introduction Epidemiology is the study of health and disease and the associated causes. The role of epidemiology in neonatal-perinatal medicine is to define the prevalence and causes of illness in women and children by exploring risk factors and their associations.…
The terms neonatology and neonatologist were not in general use until the mid-1960s. In the preface to the first edition of his monograph Diseases of the Newborn , Dr. Alexander Schaffer christened the new specialty and its practitioners, asking our…