Trends in Differences in US Mortality Rates Between Black and White Infants

Corinne A Riddell; Sam Harper; Jay S Kaufman

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.1365

Trends in Differences in US Mortality Rates Between Black and White Infants

JAMA Pediatr. 2017 Sep 1;171(9):911-913. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.1365.

Authors

Corinne A Riddell¹, Sam Harper¹, Jay S Kaufman¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Abstract

This study investigates recent trends in the absolute difference in overall and cause-specific infant mortality rates between non-Hispanic black infants and white infants.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

African Americans / statistics & numerical data
Cause of Death / trends
Cross-Sectional Studies
European Continental Ancestry Group / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Infant
Infant Mortality / ethnology
Infant Mortality / trends*
United States / epidemiology