trailed behind other industrialized nations, and it was becoming evident that significant socioeconomic division occurred also in the U.S. when approaching infant mortality. As reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “African Americans had — and continue to have — almost double the rate of infant deaths as Caucasians, and babies born in Mississippi and Alabama are more than twice as likely to die in their first year of life as babies born in Massachusetts and Vermont” (Williams). The distinctions between the nations reveals, in some measure, distinctions in the racial and cultural structure of their states.
Five central roots concerning mortality ties within the statistics for infants less than one year old: birth deficiencies, SIDS, motherly health problems, unplanned impairments and “preterm-related causes of death” (Williams). However, when experts have discussed about the statistics regarding infant mortality, they discover that one component is the major distinction made in the midst of the U.S. and other developed nations: babies born