United States black:white infant mortality disparities are not inevitable: identification of community resilience independent of socioeconomic status.

Fry-Johnson, Yvonne W; Levine, Robert; Rowley, Diane; Agboto, Vincent; Rust, George

United States black:white infant mortality disparities are not inevitable: identification of community resilience independent of socioeconomic status.

Publication or External Link

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2914622/?tool=pubmed

Date

2010

Authors

Fry-Johnson, Yvonne W

Citation

Fry-Johnson, Yvonne W and Levine, Robert and Rowley, Diane and Agboto, Vincent and Rust, George (2010) United States black:white infant mortality disparities are not inevitable: identification of community resilience independent of socioeconomic status. Ethnicity & disease, 20 (1 Supp). S1-131.

DRUM DOI

https://doi.org/10.13016/psng-7vhu

Abstract

Models for reduction/elimination of racial disparities in US infant mortality, independent from county-level contextual measures of socioeconomic status, may already exist.