INFANT MORTALITY IS A MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM, AND IT’S NOT IMPROVING.

Nicholas Bakalar writes that the United States had a higher infant mortality rate than 28 countries" in "2004, the latest year for which worldwide data are available." That figure is up from "only 11 countries" in 1960. Data also indicate that "there are large differences by race and ethnicity," with "non-Hispanic black, American Indian, Alaska Native, and Puerto Rican women" among those with "the highest rates of infant mortality." “It is thought that the increase in preterm birth and preterm-related causes of death are major factors inhibiting further declines in infant mortality,” said Marian F. MacDorman, the lead author of the report and a statistician at the C.D.C. “Infant mortality is a major public health problem, and it’s not improving.”

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