Racial/Ethnic Differences in Early Life Mortality in the United States

Our finding that Mexican Americans experience higher early life mortality risk than non-Hispanic whites differs from much of the literature on adult mortality.

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Early-Life Mortality in the United States

Our finding that Mexican Americans experience higher early-life mortality risk than non-Hispanic whites differs from much of the literature on adult mortality.

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Mortality Rate of Infants Born ... - CDC

Infants of non-Hispanic black teenagers aged 15–19 had the highest mortality rates for four of the five leading causes of death compared with ...

“Outside the Skin”: The Persistence of Black–White Disparities in ...

Despite overall declines in early-life mortality, Black–White disparities remain unchanged across several causes—especially homicide ...

Rising child mortality in the US has the most impact on Black and ...

However, in more recent years, the disparities in death rates have widened, especially for Black and Native American populations. Between 2014 ...

Racial and Ethnic Differences in U.S. Mortality | PRB

(December 2002) Except at the very oldest ages, black Americans have the highest death rates of any of America's racial and ethnic groups.

Infant mortality rates by race/ethnicity - March of Dimes

Mortality and Morbidity. Infant mortality is defined as death occurring during the first year of life. In the United States, approximately 20,000 babies die ...

Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Infant Mortality ...

U.S. infant mortality rates vary greatly by race and ethnicity. Figure 1. Infant mortality rates, by race and Hispanic origin of mother: United States, 2007.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in All-Cause and Cause-Specific ...

Results Between 1999 and 2020, there were 491 680 deaths among US youth, including 8894 (1.8%) American Indian or Alaska Native, 14 507 (3.0%) ...

Infant Mortality and African Americans | Office of Minority Health

Non-Hispanic black/African American infants are almost four times as likely to die from complications related to low birthweight as compared to ...

Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health - KFF

Infants born to Black, AIAN, and NHPI people have markedly higher mortality rates than those born to White people. Maternal and infant health ...

Social determinants of health and premature death among adults in ...

Black adults had significantly higher premature mortality than other racial and ethnic groups (p<0·0001): premature death rates per 100 000 person-years were ...

Racial/Ethnic Disparities Among Extremely Preterm Infants in the ...

Meaning Racial/ethnic disparities in rates of potentially life-saving care practices decreased over time in the US, with reductions in mortality ...

What is Driving Widening Racial Disparities in Life Expectancy? - KFF

Hispanic and Asian people had longer life expectancies of 81.9 and 85.6 years, respectively. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 resulted ...

Exploring inequalities in life expectancy and lifespan variation by ...

We examined trends in life expectancy and relative lifespan variation by race/ethnicity, gender, and urbanicity in the US.

Racial and Ethnic Differences in All-Cause and Cardiovascular ...

After adjusting for SES, the mortality HR for Black participants compared with White participants was reduced (HR, 1.16 [95% CI, 1.01–1.34]) but ...

Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic ...

Hispanic people have consistently had the highest life expectancy among all race/ethnic groups in the United States, and Black people had the lowest. Between ...

Infant mortality rate in the U.S. by race/ethnicity | Statista

In both 2021 and 2022, the children of Black mothers in the United States had the highest infant mortality rate, at almost 11 deaths per ...

Mortality and Race and Ethnicity in the United States - SOA

These events could include various life-course factors such as socioeconomic status, stress, work, migration and family histories, and childhood and adulthood ...

Racial–ethnic and geographical disparities in mortality rates across ...

When it comes to mortality in the USA, inequality is the rule, not the exception. For every cause of death, mortality is much higher in some ...