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What other factors affect the infant mortality rate?

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What other factors affect the infant mortality rate?

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Infant mortality is a complex problem with no single solution. Rather than just being an issue of health care access or health care quality, there are numerous social, economic and racial/ethnic issues that play a role. Racial disparities in infant mortality rates persist even after taking education and income into account. According to the documentary “Unnatural Causes” (www.unnaturalcauses.org), produced by California Newsreel, “Infant mortality among white American women with a college degree or higher is about 4 deaths per thousand births. But among African American women with the same level of education, infant mortality is about 10 per thousand births – almost three times higher. In fact, African American mothers with a college degree have worse birth outcomes than white mothers without a high school education.” Recent research also shows that stress over a lifetime can make it more likely that a woman will lose her baby. Chronic stress can cause the release of hormones that make

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