Infant Mortality Rates In Some Milwaukee Neighborhoods Now Worse Than Rates In Guangzhou, China

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In Milwaukee, one baby under the age of 12 months dies for every 95 who live, making it one of America's most fatal cities for infants. A generation ago, Milwaukee was one of the safest. Among registered residents of Guangzhou, one baby dies for every 210 who live. The Chinese data, vetted by the World Bank and United Nations, often miss migrant workers in factories, but their infant survival rates are improving markedly as well.

Infant survival and economic competitiveness tend to move on the same sliding scale. Study after study reveals survival chances increase in communities and nations with rising wealth and stability - just as young life is threatened by economic crisis and upheaval.

The issue is especially acute in Milwaukee, a once-muscular manufacturing city where the infant mortality rate in some neighborhoods now rivals that of Third World nations. As civic leaders embark on just-announced efforts to eliminate racial disparities and cut deaths to historic lows, the central city fallout from 30 years of industrial downsizing underscores the biggest challenge in turning the tide.

"Wealth leaves the city and infant mortality rates rise," said Thomas LaVeist, a professor of public health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. "Not just in the United States, but worldwide." From developing nations such as India, Vietnam and Brazil to mature economies such as Germany and Japan and post-communist states such as Poland and Estonia, countries around the world are making consistent and measurable advances in infant survival.

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http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/economic-decline-elevated-infant-mortality-go-handinhand-in-53210-zip-code-mh2kv7l-133758368.html

[Scuba]

1. One more good argument in favor of Medicare for All....

... but seeing as the babies are born before they die, no Republican give a damn about them.

[valerief]

2. +1

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Yep.

All repug 'concern' ends the moment the baby's head emerges from between the mother's legs.

[HereSince1628]

4. Milwaukee also has an unusal number for infant deaths due to co-sleeping

It's disturbing to read about them.