Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Racism May Affect Infant Mortality Rates


Saturday, September 29, 2007 by McClatchy Newspapers

Racism May Affect Infant Mortality Rates by Halimah Abdullah

WASHINGTON - For decades, health experts have tried to determine why African-American babies are twice as likely to die as white infants.
A new series of studies from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Health Policy Institute, along with a small but growing number of neonatalogists nationwide, suggests that the stressful effects of racism play a role.

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(http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/09/29/4203/)

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