Mortality among Infants of Black as Compared with White College-Educated Parents

Schoendorf, Kenneth C.; Hogue, Carol J.; Kleinman, Joel C.; Rowley, D.

doi:10.1056/nejm199206043262303

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“…In any case, the data from the seven cities strengthen the earlier conclusion: while lower status non-whites suffer from living in the lowest income area, the higher status non-whites benefit very little, in terms of their infant mortality levels, from living in the higher income areas. This is consistent with the findings of other studies which have suggested that it is the greater incidence of low birth weight among non-whites, even among higher status nonwhites, that accounts for the higher infant mortality rates at all class levels (Wise et al, 1985;Schoendorf et al, 1992). The fact that the overall incidence of deaths due to low birth weight in the seven-city aggregate was three times higher for non-whites than for whites supports this explanation (Stockwell & Goza, 1994).…”

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Racial differences in the relationship between infant mortality and socioeconomic status

Stockwell¹,

Goza²

1996

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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This paper presents an ecological analysis of the relationship between infant mortality and economic status by race in metropolitan Ohio, using census data on mother's residence, and economic status determined by the percentage of low income families living in each area. White-non-white comparisons for total infant mortality are examined for the US censuses of 1960US censuses of , 1970US censuses of , 1980US censuses of and 1990; and more detailed period-and broad cause-specific rates are presented for 1990. A pronounced inverse association is found between income status and infant mortality for whites, but not for non-whites. Non-white post-neonatal death rates were higher for the lowest income area, but for neonatal mortality, total infant deaths, and exogenous and endogenous cause-specific death rates, there was no discernible socioeconomic differential. It is concluded that low income whites and non-whites at all income levels have infant mortality rates that are substantially higher than the overall rate for the population. Policy implications are discussed.

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Racial differences in the relationship between infant mortality and socioeconomic status

Stockwell¹,

Goza²

1996

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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“…Immigrants may pose a mixture of challenges for healthcare providers. In terms of women's health and particularly pregnancy outcome, various studies have described wide discrepancies in birth outcomes among different ethnic and racial populations that have immigrated to western countries [1][2][3][4][5][6].…”

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Comparison of intrapartum outcome among immigrant women from Ethiopia and the general obstetric population in Israel

Salim

Mfra

Garmi

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International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics

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“…Among infants and young children, for example, virtually all of the most prevalent mortalities and morbidities are associated with poverty and social neglect. Among these are perinatal drug use (Feldman et al, 1992); violence (Mason et al, 1992); lead poisoning (Fischer et al, 1993); and poor parental educational attainment (Schoendorf et al, 1992). Postnatal infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS (Snider et al, 1992), and infantile diarrhea (Ho et al, 1988) are likewise highly associated with poverty.…”

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Poverty, policy, and pathogenesis: Economic justice and public health in the US

Whiteis¹

2000

Critical Public Health

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The pathogenic deterioration of 'inner city' neighbourhoods is a direct result of political and economic strategies to facilitate capital accumulation and consolidation, manifested in geographic patterns of uneven development that mirror the relationship between First and Third World countries. The deleterious public health effects of these trends include reduced access to care; medical indigence in the wake of deindustrialization and the restructuring of the blue-collar workforce; and the spread of social epidemics such as AIDS, violence, and substance abuse. Contemporary health policy and 'reform' debates, however, have virtually ignored the pathogenic role played by economic and social inequality in the etiology and dispersion patterns of disease. To confront the health crisis that currently threatens poor and minority communities in the US, economic justice must be explicitly acknowledged as a public health issue, alongside more traditional concerns such as access to care, immunization, vector control, and behaviour modi cation. It will be necessary to challenge political and economic policies that shore up corporate power at the expense of community development; spur capital accumulation at the expense of social programs and economic opportunity for the poor and politically disenfranchised; and actively facilitate the continued exploitation of, and withdrawal of resources from, the nation's most vulnerable citizens and their communities.

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Mortality among Infants of Black as Compared with White College-Educated Parents

Cited by 322 publications

References 12 publications

Racial differences in the relationship between infant mortality and socioeconomic status

Racial differences in the relationship between infant mortality and socioeconomic status

Comparison of intrapartum outcome among immigrant women from Ethiopia and the general obstetric population in Israel

Poverty, policy, and pathogenesis: Economic justice and public health in the US

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