U.S. Still Lags in Infant Mortality Rates, Report Finds [Consumer.Healthday.com]

Samantha Sangenito 9/26/144:00 AM

More babies are dying before they turn 1-year-old in the United States than in most of Europe and several other developed countries, a new U.S. government report says.

A greater proportion of premature births and deaths of full-term babies are driving the higher rate, which puts the United States below 25 other countries, according to the report, released Sept. 24 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"I think we've known for a long time that the U.S. has a higher preterm birth rate, but this higher infant mortality rate for full-term, big babies who should have really good survival prospects is not what we expected," said lead author Marian MacDorman, a senior statistician and researcher in the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.

The infant mortality rate refers to the percentage of babies born alive who die before their first birthday.

[For more of this story, written by Tara Haelle, go to http://consumer.healthday.com/...rt-shows-692044.html]

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And the mortality of caucasion infants in the counties surrounding Alpena is approximately 12/1000. Anyone who checks the statics will see that is incredibly high. It means that 1 in 83.33333 babies will die here before they turn 1 yr old. We do not have an excessively high number of premature births so something else is going on (poverty, social isolation, lack of education, no recourses of any kind). Our state infant mortality average (higher than the national average ) in Michigan is about 6.7/1000 babies(1 in 149) and that number includes all comers (native american, hispanic, african americans, caucasions) --- caucasions for the state of michigan average about 5 per 1000 infant deaths before the first year or 1 in 200 babies (the reason I point this out is that the surrounding counties here are 98 - 99 percent caucasion). Race is not the factor in infant death.... the environment in which those infants live in is.

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