Word: schoendorf
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Researchers have worked for years to figure out why it is so dangerous to be born black in America; two new medical studies reveal the extent of the devastation. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Kenneth Schoendorf, a medical epidemiologist at the National Center for Health Statistics, reported that black babies suffered twice the mortality rate of white infants even when both parents had completed college. Based on U.S. birth and infant death certificates that were filed from 1983 to 1985, a determination was made by Schoendorf and his colleagues that the gap was due entirely...
Although more black women than white women in the study received late or no prenatal care, that discrepancy alone was not great enough to account completely for the twofold gap in mortality rates. Schoendorf points to several possible reasons. Among them: the cumulative effects of a lifetime of inadequate access to health care, and the chronic stress associated with being black in America. One piece of good news in the report: black and white infants of normal birth weight enjoyed identical chances for good health...
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