Decrease in infant mortality in New York City after 1989

H.D. Kalter, Y. Na and P. O'Campo

American Journal of Public Health, 1998, vol. 88, issue 5, 816-820

Abstract: Objectives. This study identified factors contributing to the rapid decline in infant mortality in New York City from 1989 to 1992. Methods. Changes in birthweight distributions and in birthweight/age-, cause-, and birthweight/age/cause-specific mortality rates from 1988/89 (before the mortality reduction) to 1990/91 were identified from New York City vital statistics data. Results. Infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality of very-low-birthweight (

Date: 1998
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