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Demography (2024) 61 (4): 1211–1239.
Published: 01 August 2024
.... This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Infant health disparities Low birth weight Preterm birth Immigrants Donald Trump Macro-level political events, such as wars, strikes, protests, and presidential elections, impact...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 773–800.
Published: 01 November 2004
... ). Infant Sleep Position Practices 2 Years Into the ‘Back to Sleep’ Campaign . Clinical Pediatrics , 39 , 285 – 89 . 10.1177/000992280003900505 Gortmaker S.L. , & Wise P.H. ( 1997 ). The First Injustice: Socioeconomic Disparities, Health Services Technology, and Infant Mortality...
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Demography (2018) 55 (6): 2001–2024.
Published: 02 November 2018
...Katherine Eriksson; Gregory T. Niemesh; Melissa Thomasson Abstract Accurate vital statistics are required to understand the evolution of racial disparities in infant health and the causes of rapid secular decline in infant mortality during the early twentieth century. Unfortunately, U.S. infant...
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Demography (1991) 28 (4): 639–660.
Published: 01 November 1991
...Douglas Forbes; W. Parker Frisbie Abstract Using a half-century of death records from San Antonio/Bexar County, Texas, we examine the timing and cause structure of Spanish surname and Anglo infant mortality. Our findings show that despite the substantial disparities between ethnic-specific infant...
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Demography (2016) 53 (2): 541–566.
Published: 01 March 2016
... is associated with gender disparities in health. Among third- or later-born children, female infant mortality is 1.5 percentage points lower if the previous sibling is male. The female survival advantage, however, disappears if the previous sibling is female. Having an older female sibling shifts the gender gap...
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Demography (2001) 38 (4): 563–567.
Published: 01 November 2001
... and Health Status in America . Public Health Reports , 109 , 26 – 41 . Wise , P.H. ( 1993 ). Confronting Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality: Reconciling Science and Politics . American Journal of Preventative Medicine , 9 ( 6 ), 7 – 16 . Witzig , R. ( 1996...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2025–2051.
Published: 01 December 2022
... exposure to COVID and infant health could have direct implications for inequality and the intergenerational transmission of disparities ( Hayward and Gorman 2004 ). An unequal impact of the pandemic would exacerbate profound socioeconomic and racial/ethnic gaps in birth outcomes in the United States...
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Demography (2021) 58 (6): 2089–2115.
Published: 01 December 2021
... mothers and infants are treated by medical providers and health systems during and after birth ( Declercq et al. 2013 ; Matoba 2017 ). More research is needed, but differences in quality of care stand out as another way that medical treatment can contribute to the persistence of disparities in mortality...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 701–725.
Published: 01 November 2003
...). For these reasons, explaining the large and persistent racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes and infants health in the United States is a priority. Despite dramatic improvements in the health of all infants over the past century, significant differences persist. Today, black infants are about 2.5 times...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 979–1005.
Published: 22 May 2020
.... 2016 ; World Health Organization 2014 ). For example, often used in the infant mortality disparity literature are measures such as relative ratios or absolute differences of IMRs between more and less advantaged groups (e.g., Elder et al. 2014 ). These indicators are useful for many purposes...
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Demography (2003) 40 (4): 675–699.
Published: 01 November 2003
... . 10.2105/AJPH.89.10.1522 Gortmaker S.L. , & Wise P. ( 1997 ). The First Injustice: Socioeconomic Disparities, Health Services Technology, and Infant Mortality . Annual Review of Sociology , 23 , 147 – 70 . 10.1146/annurev.soc.23.1.147 Guendelman S. , & Abrams B...
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Demography (1984) 21 (3): 309–321.
Published: 01 August 1984
...Isaac W. Eberstein; Jan Reese Parker Abstract This research examines racial disparities in infant mortality, overall and separately according to cause of death. Using linked birth and death records for the 1975 cohort of live births in Florida, racial differences are initially described...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 615–635.
Published: 17 October 2012
... a lower mortality rate than small white infants: The case for population-specific standards for birth weight . Journal of Pediatrics , 116 , 7 – 10 . 10.1016/S0022-3476(05)81638-5 Wise , P. H. ( 2003 ). The anatomy of a disparity in infant mortality . Annual Review of Public Health , 24...
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Demography (2022) 59 (2): 587–605.
Published: 01 April 2022
... is minor? Work in medicine, public health, and demography to explain the early mortality advantage among premature Black infants is one avenue for this work and has huge potential population health benefits. On the other side, there may exist patterns by cause of death that explain the disparity in length...
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Demography (2014) 51 (2): 341–366.
Published: 09 January 2014
.... Source: Demographic and Health Survey To illustrate the disparities in infant mortality by family structure and region-level prevalence of polygyny, Fig. 2 depicts Kaplan-Meier hazard estimates of infant mortality risk that hold all other covariates (shown in Model 5) at their mean value...
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Demography (1984) 21 (2): 207–215.
Published: 01 May 1984
... Mortality: An Analysis of the Recent Improvement in the United States . American Journal of Public Health , 70 , 15 – 21 . 10.2105/AJPH.70.1.15 Markides K. , & McFarland C. ( 1982 ). A Note on Recent Trends in the Infant Mortality-Socioeconomic Status Relationship . Social Forces...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 August 2004
... in mortality. One exception is a study by Victora et al. (2000), which examined trends in the inequality of children s health by economic status in Brazil. These researchers found that in Ceará state in Northeast Brazil, disparities in children s health and infant mortal- ity between the rich and the poor...
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Demography (2023) 60 (3): 633–657.
Published: 01 June 2023
... inferiority of Black Americans. Echoing Du Bois, Preston and Haines (1991) much later discussed and statistically modeled the caste-like racial conditions of life in the United States circa 1900, which resulted in enormous racial disparities in infant and child mortality at that time. Efforts toward...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 1989–2012.
Published: 10 July 2013
... this period, black-white changes in school quality may have been correlated with black-white changes in contemporary conditions that may have affected health later in life. Thus, our models also include the black-white difference in state- and cohort-specific measures of infant mortality rates (IMR) when each...
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 701–720.
Published: 23 February 2017
...Robert M. Gonzalez; Donna Gilleskie Abstract Researchers and policymakers often rely on the infant mortality rate as an indicator of a country’s health. Despite arguments about its relevance, uniform measurement of infant mortality is necessary to guarantee its use as a valid measure of population...
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