Article: Trust for Americas Health Releases Report on Connection between Womens Health and Stalled Infant Mortality Rates

Article: Infant Mortality
Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence;      700+ words ...Infant mortality Definition The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of infants under one year ... in a given population. In 2002, the United States' infant mortality rate varied widely by race of the mother from 14.3 ...

Article: Infant mortality rates are proxies for use of ...
Healthcare Strategic Management;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... conclusions can be drawn from the latest infant mortality statistics published in the National ... that there will be higher rates of infant mortality and more multiples births. For all races, the infant mortality rate was 7.0 per 1000 live births ...

Article: Predictors of infant mortality among ...
Journal of the National Medical Association;  August 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Strategies to reduce US infant mortality rates often focus on the black-white ... identified as a significant predictor of infant mortality. Regardless of race, a decrease in infant mortality rates among college-educated women in ...

Article: KDHE: State infant mortality rate down
The Topeka Capital-Journal;  July 17, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Department of Health and Environment. The infant mortality rate dropped to 7.2 deaths per 1 ... compared to 7.9 per 1,000 in 2007. "Infant mortality is seen as a critical measurement ... disproportionately higher." The 2008 infant mortality rate for non-Hispanic blacks was ...

Article: Comparison of infant mortality rates across ...
American Journal of Health Studies;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... secondary data analysis study examined infant mortality rates (IMR) of counties in Florida ... made significant progress in reducing infant mortality since creation of " ... the American ... for [the] Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality" in 1909 (Brosco, 1999). During ...

Article: ALABAMA'S INFANT MORTALITY RATE INCREASES IN 2007
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... following news release: Alabama's 2007 infant mortality rate of 10.0 deaths per 1,000 live ... was considerably higher than the 2006 infant mortality rate of 9.0. The infant mortality rate for white infants increased from ...

Article: Differences in infant mortality between blacks and ...
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report;  April 29, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... 2000 include reducing the overall infant mortality rate (i.e., deaths at age [less ... births (objective 14.1) and the infant mortality rate for blacks to no more than 11 ... the race-specific differences in infant mortality. During 1979-1981, infant mortality ...