Rate of Death Among African-American Children in Pittsburgh Improves.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: October 14, 2001 | Copyright information

By Byron Spice, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 14--One of the paradoxes of health care in Pittsburgh has been the persistently high death rate of African-American infants in a community that boasts a highly sophisticated medical establishment.

In the very first PG Benchmarks in 1996, Pittsburgh ranked last on this measure.

The latest figures, for 1997-99, from the National Center for Health Statistics reflect an en...

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