A Reassessment of the SIDS Back to Sleep Campaign
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 Campa...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3fddebdbf7294cfdab50b51756787ef52025-08-20T03:55:36ZengWileyThe Scientific World Journal1537-744X2005-01-01555055710.1100/tsw.2005.71A Reassessment of the SIDS Back to Sleep CampaignRalph Pelligra0Glen Doman1Gerry Leisman2Ames Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Moffett Field, CA 94035, USAThe Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, Wyndmoor, PA 19038, USACarrick Institute for Clinical Ergonomics, Rehabilitation and Applied Neuroscience, School of Engineering Technologies, State University of New York, College at Farmingdale, Lupton Hall, 2350 Broadhollow Road, Farmingdale, NY 11735, USAThe 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2005.71 |
| spellingShingle | Ralph Pelligra Glen Doman Gerry Leisman A Reassessment of the SIDS Back to Sleep Campaign The Scientific World Journal |
| title | A Reassessment of the SIDS Back to Sleep Campaign |
| title_full | A Reassessment of the SIDS Back to Sleep Campaign |
| title_fullStr | A Reassessment of the SIDS Back to Sleep Campaign |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Reassessment of the SIDS Back to Sleep Campaign |
| title_short | A Reassessment of the SIDS Back to Sleep Campaign |
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