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Distribution AgreementDistribution Agreement • July 31st, 2014
Health researchers have long noted racial disparities in birth outcomes, including pre- term delivery, low birth weight, and infant mortality (Dole, Savitz, Siega-Riz, Hertz-Picciotto et al., 2003; Dominguez, Schetter, Mancuso, Rini, & Hobel, 2005; Neggers, Goldenberg, Cliver, & Hauth, 2006). In the general population, African American women have disproportionately higher rates of pre-term and low birth weight deliveries and higher rates of infant mortality than women from other racial/ethnic groups. In 2013, the National Vital Statistics Report documented the percentage of pre-term deliveries among live births across ethnicities as 11.4%; African American women represented the highest group at 16.3%. Similar disparate results were found among low birth weight deliveries during the same reporting year. The percentage of low birth weight deliveries across ethnicities was 8.0%, but African American women represented 13.0% of low birth weight deliveries (Hamilton, Martin, Osterman, & Curt
