Perinatal Health in the United States

March of Dimes site for perinatal health. Remember in class I talked about disaggregating IMRs by race? Here is a quick and easy way to check out such stats by state and even by county. I asserted in class that IMRs for African Americans got close to 20 in some states. I looked at statewide #s and found some in the high teens but none as high as 20. I might have been remembering an old statistic (I recall looking at this in hard copy not online) OR I could have been looking at some specific county level data. In any event, if interest takes you in this direction, here's a good place to look. Of course, primary data of this sort will be collected and analyzed by most State Health Departments. The MOD site provides a link to such departments when you specific a state in your search.