Perinatal mortality

continue to be causative agents in the increase rates of infant mortality in the African American community. I designed two frameworks; one is symbolic of an egg. It has several layers around the fetus to protect it and increase its chances of survival. It has been noted by Mac Dorman and Matthews in their article Understanding Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the United States Infant Mortality Rates states that the disparity of infant mortality amongst the minority populations in the U.S. has…

actual recorded births and deaths can explain a great deal in the area of population dynamics. A particularly descriptive category of mortality is those in maternal/infant populations, life expectancy and a number of specific causes of death. These factors are very revealing in regards to infrastructure,…

Meds” by Charles Orstein et. al share a unique connection beyond their health-care-related focus, they both discuss outcomes regarding treatment after significant changes in payment. In the former article, the issue seems to be pay cuts as maternal mortality in Texas skyrockets after cuts to Planned Parenthood, however, the author offers another biologic explanation “…cardiac problems. The second leading cause: drug overdoses. Hemorrhages and blood transfusion were the biggest factors…

towards their female patients. During a time period plagued with an environment of extreme racial discrimination, African American women had to overcome many obstacles to gain access to quality health care. From 1900 to 1935, “infant and maternal mortality rates were higher among blacks than whites in the United States.”…

especially in the case of those who are of low income and minority populations. The overtreatment of women with normal pregnancies, undertreatment of those with high risk pregnancies, and medical errors are all contributors to higher infant and maternal mortality, lower birth weights among minorities, and ultimately worse health outcomes over the lifecourse. In order to begin to reverse these poor health outcomes, Porter advocates for a system that organizes providers into integrated practice…

Infant mortality is one of the important and widely used health indicators in the United State. While the definite cause of the infant mortality is still unknown, there are factors that are associated with the infant death. By looking at the trends between the trends between 1960 and 1995, we learn about many of these factors. Infant mortality rate declined slowly from 1960 to 1964, perhaps that is because the gap in mortality between black and white infants narrowed dramatically in this time…

Due to enriching medical information and upgrading technology, infant mortality rates in the U.S. and other developed countries have progressively decreased throughout the 20th century. Hospitals created neonatal critical care facilities for infants developed with health issues. Women start by absorbing folate nutrients to reduce the incidence of specific birth deficiencies and pediatricians’ erudite effective sleeping arrangement for newborns to impede “sudden infant death syndrome”…

adjusted and unadjusted levels of inequality in under-five mortality by household wealth is the result of other covariates in Sastry’s study- household water supply and sanitation and mother’s education (Sastry, 2004). The main component of the infant mortality in Rio de Janeiro is the neonatal mortality, which is related to broad socioeconomic conditions, but particularly to the access to health care facilities and to the quality of perinatal care (Szwarcwald, 2000). Appropriate effects operate…

medical, or cosmetic importance. In the United States, 3% of the live births each year, approximately 120,000 infants, have identifiable structural birth defects. Issuing in 1.2 deaths per 1,000 live births, morbidity and mortality are known to be the leading cause of infant mortality. Some examples of birth…

Assessment Undoubtedly, the causality of infant mortality disparity seen among African American soon-to-be mothers is a major public health concern. It may not be one that can simply be measured by disparities in adulthood but shaped across an individual’s lifetime and potentially across generations as Freire (2000) eluded to in Pedagogy of the oppressed. In Orange County, FL whether the concerns streamed from Oppression or Residential Segregation or other additional factors, focusing on…