Empty Cradles: Confronting Our Infant Mortality Crisis

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dc.contributor.authorSchmid, John
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:06:29Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:06:29Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThe southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has mastered many of the trades Milwaukee championed in the last century: machinery, motors, metalworking. Guangzhou's boom has coincided with the sunset of manufacturing in Milwaukee, which in mere decades lost one of the nation's densest concentrations of mass production. The two cities crisscross in another way: Babies in China's industrial heartland now have a far better chance of reaching their first birthday. In Milwaukee, one baby under the age of 12 months dies for every 95 who live, making it one of America's most fatal cities for infants. A generation ago, Milwaukee was one of the safest
dc.description.urihttp://archive.jsonline.com/features/health/economic-decline-elevated-infant-mortality-go-handinhand-in-53210-zip-code-mh2kv7l-133758368.html
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/we3z-sdjh
dc.identifier.citationSchmid, John (2011) Empty Cradles: Confronting Our Infant Mortality Crisis. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel .
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 3644
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/24186
dc.subjectDisparities
dc.subjectPrenatal & Pediatric Health
dc.subjectStress
dc.titleEmpty Cradles: Confronting Our Infant Mortality Crisis
dc.typeArticle

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