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Article: Study Finds Racial Differences In Infant Mortality Rates
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- February 19, 2000
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Atlanta Inquirer
02-19-2000
Study Finds Racial Differences In Infant Mortality Rates
Infant mortality rates have declined significantly in recent decades in
both white and black populations, however, racial disparities have
increased, according to a study by researchers at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham (UAB). "Black infants are more than twice as likely to die in
the first year of life compared to white infants," says Greg R. Alexander,
Se.D., chair of the department of maternal and child health at UAB. Details
of the study appear in this month's Maternal and Child Health Journal.
The study reviewed more than one million birth and death certificates from
the last two decades and found ...