Women and children.  Infant mortality, urban programs, and home care. 
Infant mortality and morbidity has remained a national problem in the United States, directly related to a complex interrelationship between behavioral risk factors and psychosocial, socioeconomic, and biologic variables.  This article examines recent urban home care programs that have begun to provide a comprehensive approach to prenatal and infancy home visitation by home care agencies.  These programs provide a link between home and the community and improve maternal-child family health and function.