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Article: Immigrant Latinas & infant health.(Shorts)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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Research has shown that women with low incomes who do not receive early prenatal care are the ones who are most likely to have unhealthy babies--except in the case of Latina immigrants. Even though they get less prenatal care and are more likely to live in poverty, first-generation Latinas, paradoxically, have the lowest rate of infant death. In the US Latina women have 5.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, compared to 5.7 deaths/1000 live births among whites and 13.5 deaths/1000 live births among African Americans. This generalized mortality rate, however, does not hold true for all groups of Spanish-speaking women. Latina migrant farm workers, for example, have ...