Racial disparities in infant mortality have persisted, despite the overall decline in the United
States' overall infant mortality rate (IMR). The overall IMR of the entire United States (5.58 …

Racial and ethnic disparities in infant mortality in the United States seem to defy all attempts
at elimination. Despite national priorities to eliminate these disparities, black infants are 2.5 …

Environment impacts health for all species. The farreaching nature of this impact was
brought into focus by evolutionary biologist Joseph Graves, Jr., in his description of fruit fly …

Objectives. To assess state-level progress on eliminating racial disparities in infant mortality.
Methods. Using linked infant birth–death files from 1999 to 2013, we calculated state-level 3 …

Background: In the US, black infants remain more than twice as likely as white infants to die
in the first year of life. Previous studies of geographic variation in infant mortality disparities …

Objectives. We sought to measure overall disparities in pregnancy outcome, incorporating
data from the many race and ethnic groups that compose the US population, to improve …

Objective We assessed the association among gestational age (GA) at birth, timing of death,
and risk status of the pregnancy and racial/ethnic disparities in infant mortality rate in the …

OBJECTIVE: This technical report reviews and synthesizes the published literature on
racial/ethnic disparities in children's health and health care. METHODS: A systematic review …

Black infants in the United States are more than twice as likely to die as White infants in the
first year of life. Reducing the existing racial disparity in infant mortality rates is a major …

Abstract In the United States, African-American infants have significantly higher mortality
than white infants. Previous work has identified associations between individual …