Infant mortality differentials in a metropolitan aggregate of eight Ohio cities were examined for the years 1979-81. The primary analytical unit was the census tract of mother's usual residence. The independent variable was defined as the percentage of low-income families in each tract at the 1980 census. Results of the analysis revealed that in spite of some very substantial declines in the overall level of infant mortality in recent decades, there continues to be a pronounced inverse association between the aggregate economic status of an area and the probability that a newborn infant will not survive the first year of life. This inverse association characterizes both males and females, whites as well as nonwhites, and it is observed during both the neonatal and postneonatal age intervals. Moreover, it is apparent that the adverse influence of a low economic status is reflected in the incidence of mortality from all major exogenous and endogenous causes. Since these two cause groups have such different underlying determinants, this finding has important implications for the development and implementation of specific maternal and child health care policies and programs.
Beginning in 1970, a cohort of 74 sickle trait-carrying couples was identified who risked producing children with sickle cell anemia or other serious hemoglobinopathies. They were counseled concerning the disease and their risk, and their initial rea...
Gayle, H D; Yip, R; Frank, M J; Nieburg, P; Binkin, N J;
Published Date:
1988 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 103(2):143-147
Description:
To assess the accuracy of maternally reported birth weights, we compared birth weights reported by mothers in the Tennessee Women, Infants, and Children Supplemental Feeding Program (WIC) from 1975 to 1984 with the birth weights recorded on the corre...
A sample of 182 respondents to a mail survey in two Pennsylvania counties, one rural, one urban, provided information on the sources of their health information. Research questions addressed were from what sources did they obtain their health informa...
There was a substantial increase in the number of black and Hispanic physicians between 1970 and 1985. During the next 15 years, 1985 to 2000, the increase is projected to continue. The factors that will determine the size of the increase and the cha...
Health professionals are key to any progress in reducing motor vehicle injury and death, yet they have been slow to recognize their role in this important area. One factor contributing to this problem has been the absence of courses on motor vehicle ...
Baron, Roy C.; Dicker, Richard C.; Bussell, Kelley E.; Herndon, Joy L.;
Published Date:
1988 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 103(2):120-128
Description:
The Centers for Disease Control receives weekly reports of mortality due to all causes and to pneumonia and influenza from 121 cities and counties in the United States. To assess the epidemiologic applicability of these data, the trends of death rate...
McCombie, S C; Worrell, R D; Porter, B W; Browning, J A; Ray, C G;
Published Date:
1988 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 103(2):162-166
Description:
An outbreak of measles occurred in Tucson, AZ, in 1985; 112 of the 225 cases were among students at two large high schools. A review of the immunization records of all students at both schools was undertaken in order to assess the risk of a person co...
Federal recognition of the tribal status of the Klamath Indians of Oregon was terminated by Congress in 1954, along with all health, education, and welfare services. In the winter and spring of 1985 a health status and health care needs assessment wa...
Petersen, L R; Helgerson, S D; Gibbons, C M; Calhoun, C R; Ciacco, K H; Pitchford, K C;
Published Date:
1988 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 103(2):115-120
Description:
A Connecticut insurance company adopted a policy prohibiting smoking in all work areas. Three months later, the authors assessed smoking behavior changes and attitudes of a sample of 1,210 employees, 56.6 percent of the total. The survey showed that ...
In 1980 there were more than 2 million Mexican-born immigrants living in the United States. Mortality statistics for 1979-81 indicate that the standardized mortality ratio for cancer among Mexican immigrants is 72 percent of that among all white male...
The Maternal and Child Health Information Network--MATCH--was begun in 1984 as a demonstration project with support from the Division of Maternal and Child Health of the Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service. The primary...
The incidence of acute episodes of intestinal infectious diseases in the United States was estimated through analysis of community-based studies and national interview surveys. Their differing results were reconciled by adjusting the study population...
On April 26, 1986, a reactor unit at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl Power Station exploded, and substantial amounts of radioactive material were released. Fallout from this incident was deposited in the United States and elsewhere. Radioactive fallout ...
International Conference on the Perinatal and Infant Mortality Problem of the United States (1965 : Washington, D.C.)
Published Date:
June 1966
Series:
Vital and health statistics. Series 4, Documents and committee reports ; no. 3
Public Health Service publication, no. 1000, series 4, no. 3
Description:
Summary of the presentations and discussions at the International Conference on the Perinatal and Infant Mortality Problem of the United States, Washington, D. C., May 13 and 14, 1965, under the sponsorship of the National Center for Health Statistic...
MacDorman, Marian F.; Mathews, T. J.; Hoyert, Donna L.;
Corporate Authors:
Natinal Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
Published Date:
April 2013
Source:
NCHS data brief ; no. 120
Series:
NCHS data brief
Description:
DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 2013-1209After a plateau from 2000 through 2005, the U.S. infant mortality rate declined by 12% to a rate of 6.05 in 2011. Provisional infant mortality counts for the first half of 2012 suggest a continued downward trend....
The mortality experiences of blacks, Native Americans, and Hispanics are reviewed. Evidence recently made available shows the Hispanic experience to be only slightly less favorable than the Anglo (other white) experience, suggesting remarkable progre...