Healthy Birth Outcomes:
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Selected Research
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This page will feature selected research efforts that seek to
understand and identify ways to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in
birth outcomes.
- Racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes: A life-course perspective.
(Michael C. Lu and N. Halfon, Maternal Child Health Journal, Vol. 7, No.
1, pages 13-30, March 2003). Abstract and information on accessing the full
article is available here.
- Disparities in Infant Mortality: What's Genetics Got to Do With It?
(Richard David and James Collins, Jr., American Journal of Public Health,
July 2007). Abstract and information on accessing the full article is
available here.
Last Revised: June 26, 2008
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