African American infant mortality rate soars in Ohio
Ohio also ranked as the state with the third highest infant mortality rate for babies of Hispanic origin, at 6.9 per 1,000 live births. “at was shocking to me,” Youngstown UMADAOP Executive Director Darryl Alexander says. “It was just disturbing.” e United States has a national average infant mortality rate that lags behind 27 other wealthy countries, including Sweden, Czech Republic and Slovakia, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Nationwide, babies of non-Hispanic black origin faced the highest rate of infant mortality.
When it comes to the infant mortality rate of African American babies, Ohio ranks as the third worst in the nation.is statistic comes from the most recent data available in the Centers for Disease Control National Vital Statistics Report. e infant mortality rate for non-Hispanic black babies (13.6 per 1,000 live births) stands at nearly double that of non-Hispanic white babies (6.3 per 1,000 live births), according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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