http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/perspectives-on-u-s-infant-mortality/ taking the most charitable view of those who disagree Mon, 21 Dec 2020 14:47:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/perspectives-on-u-s-infant-mortality/#comment-461036 Sat, 03 Oct 2015 22:50:57 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=5823#comment-461036 Interestingly Hispanic women have lower infant mortality that whites despite being poorer.
Further, infants born to U.S.-a><born Mexican American women exhibit rates of mortality that are statistically equal to those of non-Hispanic white women during the first weeks of life and fare considerably better than infants born to non-Hispanic black women, with whom they share similar socioeconomic profiles. These patterns are all consistent with the definition of the epidemiologic paradox as originally proposed by Markides and Coreil (1986).

]]> http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/perspectives-on-u-s-infant-mortality/#comment-461015 Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:20:34 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=5823#comment-461015 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?

]]> http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/perspectives-on-u-s-infant-mortality/#comment-461009 Fri, 02 Oct 2015 13:21:38 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=5823#comment-461009 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” …

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