Black-White Infant Mortality Differential has Grown in Recent Decades and Will Persist into Next Century

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 267 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Mortality Differential

White and Nonwhite Mortality

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-134
Author(s):  
EMANUEL CHUSID
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Report Card ◽  
The State ◽  
Infant Mortality Rate ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Vital Statistic ◽  
Death Registration ◽  
Mortality Differential

Each year I scrutinize a little more thoroughly Myron Wegman's vital statistic summaries. I regard these as kind of report card of the state of health of our patients. One might estimate how effective we are by how the numbers look. The white-nonwhite mortality differential which Dr. Wegman has noted has been painfully elaborated by Dr. Helen C. Chase. Her compilation of death registration figures shows that, in 1963, infant mortality rate for whites was 22.3, and for nonwhites was 41.7.

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