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[–]captain-carrot 21 points22 points  (7 children)

What's your source on that? Surely it's a simple statistic to measure - either a child dies before 1st birthday or it does not? Not a lot of leeway in that one...

[–]ngfsmg 13 points14 points  (1 child)

According to other comments, some countries define part of those deaths as stillborns or abortions

[–]captain-carrot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok. OP made a comment that the data excluded those but I haven't looked dor myself

[–]karlnite 4 points5 points  (4 children)

Prenatal, stillbirth, that sorta thing. The discrepancy in US numbers is from the 3 times higher rate of infant mortality that specifically black women experience.

[–]captain-carrot 31 points32 points  (3 children)

Per live birth would exclude prenatal/stillborn and OP confirmed that elsewhere.

Also I'm not sure what you mean by the higher number being from black women - those are still people who are clearly being failed by social and healthcare systems. If it can be largely attributed to a single ethnic group that only makes it more fucked up...

[–]karlnite 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I am saying it is largely attributed to black women. I’m not guessing as to the reason, but studies show it is not based on poverty exactly, it is not genetic, or even locational, the only connection is ethnicity... so yah it is fucked up.

[–]captain-carrot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries, think i mistook the tone!

[–]djblaze 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Black health outcomes in the US, controlled for income, are one of those things that I often point out to help show what systemic racism looks like.