The authors' review of the health services literature since the release of the landmark Report
of the Secretary's Task Force Report of Black and Minority Health in 1985 revealed …

This study examined the responses from over 3,400 interviews with African Americans,
Latinos, and Whites from three nationally representative telephone surveys on sources of …

OBJECTIVES: We examined trends in birthweight-gestational age distributions and related
infant mortality for African American and white women and calculated the estimated excess …

While infant mortality rates have continued to decline in the US, low birth weight and preterm
rates have dramatically increased. Although the combination of factors that underlies these …

Objective: In the past two decades, infant mortality rates in the United States declined in
African-American and White populations. Despite this, racial disparities in infant mortality …

Background: The long-standing difference in infant mortality in the United States between
black and white infants has increased in recent years. To help identify the cause, we …

Linked birth and infant death certificates allow measurement of birthweight-specific infant
mortality. Jack Smith, MS, to whom this issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine …

IN THE LITERATURE Page 1 198 BIRTH 25:3 September 1998 IN THE LITERATURE
Commentary on: Shiono PH, Rauh VA, Park M, Lederman SA, Zuskar D. Ethnic differences in …

In Health Care Policy and Practice: A Biopsychosocial Perspective, Moniz and Gorin guide
students through the development of the American health care system: what it is, what the …

The purpose was to examine changes in overall and gestational age-specific proportions
and rates of fetal death, first day death (< 24 h), and combined fetal-first day death from 1990 …