This paper has two objectives. First, we examine the Black–White disparity in the US infant
mortality rate (IMR) between 1995 and 2009, and explore the influence of socioeconomic …

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 …

Despite substantial reductions in US infant mortality during the past several decades, black-
white disparities in infant mortality persist. Among 40 states with sufficient numbers of black …

Objectives: Understanding the factors contributing to black/white disparities in infant
mortality rates in Wisconsin is a prerequisite to decreasing these disparities and improving …

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 …

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 …

In 2016 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that for the first time, US
women in their thirties were bearing more children than those in their twenties. Analyzing US …

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 …

Abstract Purpose Black/African American (AA) infants have been persistently observed with
survival disadvantage compared to White infants in the USA, implying excess mortality …

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 …