Infant mortality: a call to action overcoming health disparities in the United States

Among all of the industrialized countries, the United States has the highest infant mortality rate. Racial and ethnic disparities continue to plague the United States with a disproportionally high rate of infant death. Furthermore, racial disparities among infant and neonatal mortality rates remain...

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Autores principales: Vanderbilt, Allison A., Wright, Marcie S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2013
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3772318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24029082
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/meo.v18i0.22503
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description Among all of the industrialized countries, the United States has the highest infant mortality rate. Racial and ethnic disparities continue to plague the United States with a disproportionally high rate of infant death. Furthermore, racial disparities among infant and neonatal mortality rates remain a chronic health problem in the United States. These risks are based on the geographical variations in mortality and disparities among differences in maternal risk characteristics, low birth weights, and lack of access to health care.
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spelling pubmed-37723182013-09-13 Infant mortality: a call to action overcoming health disparities in the United States Vanderbilt, Allison A. Wright, Marcie S. Med Educ Online Short Communication Among all of the industrialized countries, the United States has the highest infant mortality rate. Racial and ethnic disparities continue to plague the United States with a disproportionally high rate of infant death. Furthermore, racial disparities among infant and neonatal mortality rates remain a chronic health problem in the United States. These risks are based on the geographical variations in mortality and disparities among differences in maternal risk characteristics, low birth weights, and lack of access to health care. Co-Action Publishing 2013-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3772318/ /pubmed/24029082 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/meo.v18i0.22503 Text en © 2013 Allison A. Vanderbilt and Marcie S. Wright http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3772318/
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