Recorded: EIP 2015 ● Language: English ● Duration: 16 minutes ● Topic: Adolescent Medicine

     
 

Speaker: JACQUELINE MULLER-NORDHORN, Professor and Head of Public Health at the Berlin School of Public Health, Charité, Germany

  
     
  Learning Objectives: At the end of the Session participants will: (1) learn how rates of sudden infant death syndrome have been decreasing constantly; (2) understand how increased vaccination coverage with diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis has been associated with lower rates of sudden infant death syndrome; and (3) understand the inverse relation between diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccination coverage and sudden infant death syndrome persists even after adjusting for infant sleep position.