Perspectives on U.S. Infant Mortality

New genius-grant winner Heidi Williams and colleagues write,

Effectively, either across countries or across regions within the US, we see that the observed geographic variation in postneontal mortality is heavily driven by variation in health gradients across socioeconomic groups. Notably, when we look at neonatal mortality we do not draw the same conclusions, suggesting that the inequalities we observe emerge especially strongly during the postneonatal period

Pointer from Joshua Gans. Read the paper before commenting. You will note that she deals with reporting differences.

3 thoughts on “Perspectives on U.S. Infant Mortality

  1. I’m sure she’s very smart, but I’d bet the genius-worthy part was substituting code speak words like “inequality” for neutral sounding “disparity”, as in the quoted “suggesting that the inequalities we observe” …

  2. I skimmed it and that is going to have to do. The main takeaways seem to be howlittle is known of the actual causes and that the timing is after the medical system has done it’s job. And what of the claim of an advantage the US has in neonatal care?

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