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
Monday, October 29, 2007
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