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- Title
Apparent Disappearance of the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap--Dane County, Wisconsin, 1990-2007.
- Abstract
The article offers a look at the disappearance of the infant mortality gap between blacks and whites in Dane County, Wisconsin between 1990 and 2007. Wisconsin is said to be the U.S. state that has the highest black infant mortality rate (IMR) between 2002 and 2004. The Public Health Madison Dane Country (PHMDC) investigated the birth and death records for 1990 to 2007 to understand the decline in IMR in Dane County. Such investigation discovered a large decrease in black IMR, due to decrease in premature birth rate, decline in smoking and teenage pregnancy and increase in high school graduation. The author notes that the significant disappearance in black-white IMR can be attributed to greater survival of high-risk infants and lesser high risk infants being born.
- Subjects
DANE County (Wis.); WISCONSIN; INFANT mortality; BLACK people; WHITE people; NEONATAL death; PREGNANCY complications
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009, Vol 302, Issue 8, p839
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article