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SUBMITTER: Krieger N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4711344 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krieger Nancy N Singh Nakul N Chen Jarvis T JT Coull Brent A BA Beckfield Jason J Kiang Mathew V MV Waterman Pamela D PD Gruskin Sofia S
Journal of public health policy 20150514 3
Policy-oriented population health targets, such as the Millennium Development Goals and national targets to address health inequities, are typically based on trends of a decade or less. To test whether expanded timeframes might be more apt, we analyzed 50-year trends in US infant death rates (1960-2010) jointly by income and race/ethnicity. The largest annual per cent changes in the infant death rate (between -4 and -10 per cent), for all racial/ethnic groups, in the lowest income quintile occur ...[more]