ArticleDemography2004
The increasing racial disparity in infant mortality: respiratory distress syndrome and other causes.
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- Racial disparities in the development of comorbid conditions after preterm birth: A narrative review.Seminars in perinatology · 2022Review
- Are newborn outcomes different for term babies who were exposed to antenatal corticosteroids?American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2021Article
- Racial Inequalities in Mortality from Coronavirus: The Tip of the Iceberg.The American journal of medicine · 2020Article
- 'Most at risk' for COVID19? The imperative to expand the definition from biological to social factors for equity.Preventive medicine · 2020Article
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- Translational Systems Pharmacology Studies in Pregnant Women.CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology · 2018Review
- Racial disparities in health conditions among prisoners compared with the general population.SSM - population health · 2017Article
- Trends of Social Inequalities in the Specific Causes of Infant Mortality in a Nationwide Birth Cohort in Korea, 1995-2009.Journal of Korean medical science · 2017Article
- Racial and Ethnic Infant Mortality Gaps and the Role of Socio-Economic Status.Labour economics · 2016Article
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- Antenatal steroids: can we optimize the dose?Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology · 2014Review
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Abstract
Although substantial declines in infant mortality rates have occurred across racial/ethnic groups, there has been a marked increase in relative black-white disparity in the risk of infant death over the past two decades. The objective of our analysis was to gain insight into the reasons for this growing inequality on the basis of data from linked cohort files for 1989-1990 and 1995-1998. We found a nationwide reversal from a survival advantage to a survival disadvantage for blacks with respect to respiratory distress syndrome over this period. The results are consistent with the view that the potential for a widening of the relative racial gap in infant mortality is high when innovations in health care occur in a continuing context of social inequality. As expected, the results for other causes of infant mortality, although similar, are less striking. Models of absolute change demonstrate that among low-weight births, absolute declines in mortality were greater for white infants than for black infants.
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