Summary Infant mortality rates among African Americans remain twice as high as among whites. African American women with graduate degrees still face a greater risk of delivering pre-term, low birth-weight babies than white women who didn't finish high school. In this medical detective story, researchers are circling in on the added burden of racism through the life-course as a long-term risk factor.
Directed : Unknown
Written : Unknown
Stars : Llewellyn M. Smith S. Leonard Syme David Williams Ana Diez-Roux
Genres : Documentary
Countries of origin : United States
Official sites : California Newsreel Official site
Language : English
Production companies : Latino Public Broadcasting California Newsreel Center for Asian American Media
Summary Infant mortality rates among African Americans remain twice as high as among whites. African American women with graduate degrees still face a greater risk of delivering pre-term, low birth-weight babies than white women who didn't finish high school. In this medical detective story, researchers are circling in on the added burden of racism through the life-course as a long-term risk factor.
Genres : Documentary
Countries of origin : United States
Official sites : California Newsreel Official site
Language : English
Production companies : Latino Public Broadcasting California Newsreel Center for Asian American Media
