On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:25:01 EST, Valerie W. McClain <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>An article dated October 14, 2001 in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, states at
>thhe beginning, "One of the paradoxes of health care in Pittsburgh has
been the
>persistently high death rate of African American infants in a community
that
>boosts a highly sophisticated medical establishment."   Pittsburgh had an
>infant death rate for African American infants of 17.23 (from data in1997-
99)
>Better than the rate of 23.8 per 1000 births in 1991-93.  I am not sure
what the
>data would be now.

Is there a break-down into cause of death?  How many are untreated or
mistreated medical conditions and how many are from other causes?

-Claire Bloodgood, IBCLC

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