Mortality among Infants of Black as Compared with White College-Educated Parents
- 4 June 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 326 (23) , 1522-1526
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199206043262303
Abstract
In the United States, black infants are twice as likely to die as white infants; this difference reflects both black infants' higher rates of low birth weight and the higher mortality among black infants of normal birth weight. We studied mortality in infants born to college-educated parents in order to investigate this gap while controlling for sociodemographic variables.Keywords
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