Data from the National Infant Mortality Surveillance project were used to examine the State-specific variations in infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality and to examine some of the factors affecting the risks of death. The infant mortality risk, defined as the risk of death before 1 year of age to an infant born in the 1980 birth cohort, in the highest risk State was nearly three times that in the lowest risk State. Mortality risk ratios of two or greater were found when comparing high and low States for overall black infant mortality risks, overall neonatal mortality, neonatal mortality risks for black and white infants examined separately, neonatal mortality risks for low birth weight infants regardless of race, and overall postneonatal mortality and postneonatal mortality for white infants. The lowest State-specific black mortality risks were higher than the highest white risks for overall infant mortality and neonatal mortality. The differences between State extremes in mortality risks are greater than the differences between the United States and the Scandinavian countries with the lowest infant mortality.
Buehler, James W.; Kleinman, Joel C.; Hogue, Carol J. R.; Strauss, Lilo T.; Smith, Jack C.;
Published Date:
1987 Mar-Apr
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Public Health Rep. 102(2):151-161
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National statistics on the risk of infant mortality by birth weight were collected most recently in 1980 and 1960. (Infant mortality risk is the number of deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births.) In this 20-year period, the infan...
Allen, David M.; Buehler, James W.; Hogue, Carol J. R.; Strauss, Lilo T.; Smith, Jack C.;
Published Date:
1987 Mar-Apr
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Public Health Rep. 102(2):138-145
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To describe regional differences in birth weight-specific infant mortality in the United States, we used data from the National Infant Mortality Surveillance project. The infant mortality risk (IMR) for the nation was 11.0 deaths per 1,000 live birth...
Prager, Kate; Flinchum, Glenn A.; Johnson, David P.;
Published Date:
1987 Mar-Apr
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Public Health Rep. 102(2):216-223
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The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has completed a pilot test of its method to develop national linked files of birth and infant death records. A linked file of the 1982 birth cohort was produced that successfully linked 97 percent of t...
Hemoglobin, mean corpuscular volume, erythrocyte count, and leukocyte count were measured, and hematocrit, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration were computed electronically for 7,739 healthy black persons. The st...
The National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) project used linked birth and infant death certificates to calculate birth weight-specific infant mortality risks for the 1980 U.S. birth cohort. Record linkage depends on complete registration of vit...
Hogue, Carol J. R.; Buehler, James W.; Strauss, Lilo T.; Smith, Jack C.;
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1987 Mar-Apr
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Public Health Rep. 102(2):126-138
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The recent slowdown in the decline of infant mortality in the United States and the continued high risk of death among black infants (twice that of white infants) prompted a consortium of Public Health Service agencies to collaborate with all States ...
Friede, Andrew; Baldwin, Wendy; Rhodes, Philip H.; Buehler, James W.; Strauss, Lilo T.; Smith, Jack C.; Hogue, Carol J. R.;
Published Date:
1987 Mar-Apr
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Public Health Rep. 102(2):192-199
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In 1980, there were 562,330 babies born in the United States to teenage mothers (19 years of age or younger). The offspring of teenage mothers have long been known to be at increased risk of infant mortality, largely because of their high prevalence ...
Approximately 25 percent of persons diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have been black. This paper examines three areas of concern when focusing on AIDS in the black population: differences from whites in patterns of transmissio...
Sappenfield, William M.; Buehler, James W.; Binkin, Nancy J.; Hogue, Carol J. R.; Strauss, LIlo T.; Smith, Jack C.;
Published Date:
1987 Mar-Apr
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Public Health Rep. 102(2):182-192
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In recent decades, neonatal and postneonatal mortality rates have declined overall in the United States. Yet, the mortality rates for black infants continue to be approximately twice those for white infants. With the use of data from 45 of the 53 vit...
Berry, R. J.; Buehler, James W.; Strauss, Lilo T.; Hogue, Carol J. R.; Smith, Jack C.;
Published Date:
1987 Mar-Apr
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Public Health Rep. 102(2):171-181
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The impact of mortality due to congenital anomalies in single-delivery births was compared in 1960 and 1980 birth cohorts; data were used from the 1960 National Center for Health Statistics national linkage of birth and death certificates and the 198...
Strauss, Lilo T.; Freedman, Mary Anne; Gunter, Nits; Powell-Griner, Eve; Smith, Jack C.;
Published Date:
1987 Mar-Apr
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Public Health Rep. 102(2):204-210
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The National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) project aggregated data provided by 53 vital statistics reporting areas--50 States, New York City, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (subsequently called States)--from their files of linked bi...
Health planners should base program decisions on the best information available. Combining information from different sources can be valuable in identifying problems--the essential first step in program planning. To facilitate this process, a worksho...
Buehler, James W.; Strauss, Lilo T.; Hogue, Carol J. R.; Smith, Jack C.;
Published Date:
1987 Mar-Apr
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Public Health Rep. 102(2):162-171
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To describe underlying causes of infant death by birth weight, we used data from the 1980 National Infant Mortality Surveillance project and aggregated International Classification of Diseases codes into seven categories: perinatal conditions, infect...
Rossen, Lauren M.; Khan, Diba; Schoendorf, Kenneth C.;
Published Date:
Sep 2016
Source:
Epidemiology. 27(5):690-696.
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BackgroundIn the US, black infants remain more than twice as likely as white infants to die in the first year of life. Previous studies of geographic variation in infant mortality disparities have been limited to large metropolitan areas where stable...
Allen, David M.; Buehler, James W.; Hogue, Carol J. R.; Strauss, Lilo T.; Smith, Jack C.;
Published Date:
1987 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 102(2):138-145
Description:
To describe regional differences in birth weight-specific infant mortality in the United States, we used data from the National Infant Mortality Surveillance project. The infant mortality risk (IMR) for the nation was 11.0 deaths per 1,000 live birth...
Strauss, Lilo T.; Freedman, Mary Anne; Gunter, Nits; Powell-Griner, Eve; Smith, Jack C.;
Published Date:
1987 Mar-Apr
Source:
Public Health Rep. 102(2):204-210
Description:
The National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) project aggregated data provided by 53 vital statistics reporting areas--50 States, New York City, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (subsequently called States)--from their files of linked bi...
Health planners should base program decisions on the best information available. Combining information from different sources can be valuable in identifying problems--the essential first step in program planning. To facilitate this process, a worksho...
A major challenge facing the health care system is to improve the distribution of infant birth weights. Prenatal weight gain and prepregnancy weight status are two of the major factors that influence infant birth weight. These are independently and l...