The pre-term rate in the United States is about 9.8 percent. This places the U.S. among the worst of high-resource nations. Reducing the pre-term birth rate is a national public health priority and a primary focus of the March of Dimes Prematurity Campaign.

The Caregiver Action Network is the nation’s leading family caregiver organization working to help the more than 90 million Americans who care for loved ones with chronic conditions, disabilities, disease or the frailties of old age.