Trends in Infant Mortality by Cause of Death and Other Characteristics, 1960–88

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• Personal Author:
  MacDorman, Marian F. ; Rosenberg, Harry Michael
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), Division of Vital Statistics.
• Description:
  Trends and patterns in US. infant mortaliiy from 1960-88 are analyzed by age, race, sex, season, and cause of death. The report discusses major shifts in leading causes of infant mortality from 1960-88 and the recent divergence in mortality rates between black and white infants.
• Content Notes:
  By Marian F. MacDorman, Ph. D., and Harry M. Rosenberg, Ph. D., Division of Vital Statistics.
  
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 23-24).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Cause Of Death/in Infancy & Childhood Cause Of Death/trends Infant Mortality
• Source:
  Vital and health statistics. Series 20, Data from the National Vital Statistics System ; no. 20 ; DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 93-1857
• Series:
  Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  print; ii, 51 p. : ill.
• Issue:
  20
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3439ad4c547768c078af79611a155cb569392afb030640072dd5fefeb4a12b35f5e453fa63e8616a0636039c60665fee6416f89172a93a9e146bc4aebf0a56c2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6169/cdc_6169_DS1.pdf
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