Income inequality and racial disparities in pregnancy-related mortality in the US

In this ecological study, we examined the associations between state-level income inequality and pregnancy-related mortality among non-Hispanic (NH) black and NH white populations across the US. We estimated total population and race-specific 5-year pregnancy-related mortality ratios in each state b...

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Main Authors: Dovile Vilda, Maeve Wallace, Lauren Dyer, Emily Harville, Katherine Theall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-12-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827319301673