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- Title
Infant Deaths Sink to New Low.
- Authors
Klitsch, Michael
- Abstract
This article reports that the infant mortality rate in the U.S. for 1992 is the lowest ever recorded, and represents a decline of nearly 5 percent from the level of 8.9 per 1,000 for 1991. The infant mortality rate for 1992 is 8.5 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. According to vital statistics data for 1992, the mortality rate among white infants fell by nearly 6 percent, from 7.3 deaths to 6.9 deaths per 1,000, while the rate among African American infants fell by about 5 percent, from 17.6 deaths to 16.8 deaths per 1,000. Of the 34,628 infant deaths occurring in 1992, 53 percent derived from four causes-congenital anomalies, sudden infant death syndrome, and problems caused by short gestation and low birth weight.
- Subjects
UNITED States; INFANT mortality; PERINATAL death; AFRICAN Americans; SUDDEN infant death syndrome; MORTALITY
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 2, p52
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article