Download or read book Trends and Determinants of Black white Differentials in Infant Mortality in the United States Since 1964 written by Alberto Palloni and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Infant Mortality Trends United States and Each State 1930 1964 written by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Division of Vital Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A report on infant, fetal, and maternal deaths, with special reference to differential mortality by race, sex, and region, causes of death, and trends in infant and maternal mortality.
Download or read book Racial Differentials in Infant Mortality in the U S written by Robert A. Hummer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trends in Infant Mortality by Cause of Death and Other Characteristics 1960 88 written by Marian F. MacDorman and published by National Center for Health Statistics. This book was released on 1993 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Ecological Analysis of Social and Economic Influences on Black and White Infant Mortality Risk in Orange County FL written by Vanessa A. Lopez-Littleton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black health disparities are a salient public health issue with blacks in every socioeconomic level at a greater health disadvantage than their white counterparts. In particular, disparity in infant mortality rates between blacks and whites have widened in recent decades to differentials never before experienced in the United States. Social ecologists investigating the myriad of individual and environmental risk factors have failed to fully account for the persistent differential. This study examines the relationships between individual and environmental influences on the health risk experienced by blacks, whites, as well as the differential between the two populations. This multi-level analysis was conducted using five-year aggregate data centering on the 2000 decennial census (1998 - 2002) as the most recent census data available. During the study period, the 193 census tracts in Orange County, Florida, experienced 504 infant deaths which included 242 black and 241 white infant deaths. Using the infant mortality target rate developed for Healthy People 2000 as the "normal" infant mortality rate, risk was calculated as the percentage of deviation from the (")normal("). A rate was also calculated to demonstrate the difference between black and white percent deviations from the "normal". Structural equation modeling was used to examine the relationship between socioeconomic influences (Socioeconomic Disadvantage), social risk factors (Social Disorganization), and behavioral risk factors (Poor Behavioral Choices) using a latent variable approach based on a conceptual model which integrated the social determinants of health framework and conflict theory. In this study, an inverse association was found between socioeconomic disadvantage and infant mortality risk for black infants. This finding is contradictory to the expected finding and may have been due to multicollinearity or the operationalization of the endogenous study variable for black infant mortality risk. Thus, this study highlights the complexity of unraveling the interrelationship between social and economic risk factors. The results of this study demonstrate the importance of the latent variable approach in public health research as well as the need to broaden the approach to selecting indicators. This study concludes with specific policy recommendations aimed at improving the health outcomes of vulnerable populations using the social determinants of health framework.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book Infant Mortality Rates written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Infant Fetal and Maternal Mortality United States 1963 written by Mary A. McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Infant mortality rates written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Infant Mortality Trends United States and Each State 1930 1964 written by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Division of Vital Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stratification Health Care and Infant Mortality in the United States written by Steven Lawrence Gortmaker and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trends in Disparities in Black white Infant Mortality in the Southern and Northern U S and North Carolina written by Misty Becker and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important indicators of health and well being in any population is infant mortality. Hence, differences in levels of infant mortality and its components, such as neonatal mortality, are strong indicators for health disparities. This thesis analyzes trends and variation in infant mortality for blacks and whites with focus upon disparities. Following Shin, (1975) infant mortality data are compiled for selected states in the United states and all 100 counties in the state of North Carolina, where the black-white differences have been traditionally higher than the national average. Furthermore the analysis will be extended by using longitudinal design and pooled time-series cross-sectional models for infant mortality and neonatal mortality. The pooled time-series model will be estimated for black-white infant mortality ratio. The main dependent variable is the ratio of black to white infant mortality. Data are drawn from the websites of the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control, and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. The data has been analyzed in comparative context using the Northern states and the national trend examining change in the level of disparities in the Southern states, and more particularly North Carolina.
Download or read book Gender Differentials in Infant Mortality written by Achala Srivastava and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Determinants of Neonatal Mortality Rates in the U S written by Hope Corman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Explaining Race Differences in Infant Mortality in the United States written by Melissa R. Partin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Infant Mortality Trends United States and Each State 1930 1964 written by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Capital Crime written by Margaret Boone and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rate of infant deaths at birth in America is much higher for Black infants (over 10,000 a year) than for the rest of the population, and disproportionately concentrated among poor, inner-city blacks. Margaret Boone reveals the dimensions, correlates and causes of Black infant mortality in this important study, based at a major hospital in Washington, D.C. Boone identifies four types of Black women most at risk, and suggests policy changes that would reduce the infant mortality rate - improving prenatal care, changing public health education, building stronger social support networks and improving health care tracking systems.
