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Some research argues that to end the high infant mortality rate of black children, the country needs to fix the social and societal issues that plague African Americans, [170] such as institutional racism, mass incarceration, poverty, and health care disparities that are present amongst the African American population. Following this theory, if ...
Black maternal mortality in the United States refers to the disproportionately high rate of maternal death among those who identify as Black or African American women. [1] Maternal death is often linked to both direct obstetric complications (such as hemorrhage or eclampsia) and indirect obstetric deaths that exacerbate pre-existing health ...
The infant mortality rate for African Americans is approximately twice the rate for European Americans, but, in a study that looked at members of these two groups who belonged to the military and received care through the same medical system, their infant mortality rates were essentially equivalent. [90]
New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that the infant mortality rate in the U.S. rose 3% from 2021 to 2022, marking the first year-to-year increase in 20 years.
In Ohio, the Black infant mortality rate in 2021 was 164% higher for Blacks than whites, even when controlling for factors such as parental income and education, according to the Ohio Infant ...
Tarrant County Public Health released a data brief in August 2022 showing that in 2019 Tarrant County had the fourth highest infant mortality rate among all Texas counties, with a rate of 5.55 ...
[2] [3] The American Public Health Association considers maternal mortality to be a human rights issue, also noting the disparate rates of Black maternal death. [4] Race affects maternal health throughout the pregnancy continuum, beginning prior to conception and continuing through pregnancy (antepartum), during labor and childbirth ...
For the first time in more than two decades, the United States saw an increase in infant mortality rates in 2022.