When I was a typically paranoid new parent, I researched the odds of both at birth and after birth deaths. I was very surprised by the huge racial differences - a black infant is more than twice as likely to die during the first year than a white or Hispanic infant.<p>US statistics:<p><a href="http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/infant-mortality-rate-by-race-ethnicity/" rel="nofollow">http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/infant-mortality-rate-b...</a><p>However, the parent paper's abstract says that the primary difference is economic - yet US hispanics have identical infant death rates to white Americans. Could anyone with access to the paper see if the authors actually for this a stronger correlation than race?
In the conclusion the allude to two areas for improvement: access and prevention.<p>1) "Our results on neonatal mortality strongly suggest that differential access to technology-intensive medical care provided shortly after birth is unlikely to explain the US IMR disadvantage"<p>2) "... in general, policy attention
should focus on either preventing preterm births or on reducing postneonatal mortality."