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Activity Number:
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282
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
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| Abstract - #306774 |
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Title:
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Changes in Infant Mortality by Socioeconomic Status: U.S. Residents, 1995--2000
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Author(s):
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Jay H. Kim*+ and Joe Fred Gonzalez, Jr. and Paul D. Williams
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Companies:
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics
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Address:
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National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD, 20782,
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Keywords:
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infant mortality rates ; socioeconomic status ; health service areas
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Abstract:
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Infant mortality rates (IMR) have been declining among the general population in the United States for decades. However, the relationship between death rates and socioeconomic status (SES) has been seldom examined, especially in the late 1990's. This paper will explore the relationship between infant mortality rates for sex-race groups by SES of US residents from 1995 to 2000. Health service areas (HSAs) were used as the geographical units of analysis. There are 805 HSAs in the U.S., and each consists of an average of four counties. Mortality data were obtained from NCHS. A SES (scale 1-5) was constructed by principal component analysis applied to 14 variables that were made available from the 2000 U.S. Decennial Census. Several statistical methods will be investigated to compare differences of IMR between sex-race groups and SES over time.
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