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Infant mortality data within the united states are characterized by a long-standing and serious disparity among racial and ethnic minorities. True or False

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Answer: True

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Infant mortality in the United States has been characterized using racial division which starts from birth accompanied with differences caused by an unfair treatment that occurs in health care.

Health resources and care are never distributed or received equally by different racial groups. Although they have been positive changes in the health care of the African American population but infant mortality is still statistically 2.5 times more as compared to the white babies and these occur before the infants reach a year old. These numbers seems to be increasing in other states.

Socioeconomic status, nutrition and lack of prenatal seems to be major effect that contributes to these statistics.

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