Intersecting ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in infant mortality in England, 2007–2019

Correspondence to Dr Oluwaseun B. Esan, Department of Public Health Policy and Systems, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; oluwaseun.esan@liverpool.ac.uk There are stark socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in infant mortality in the UK.1 Previously, we have demonstrated that rising child pove...

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Published in:Archives of disease in childhood 2024-07, Vol.109 (10), p.870-871
Main Authors: Esan, Oluwaseun B., Norman, Paul, McHale, Philip, Hargreaves, Dougal, Creese, Hanna, Melendez-Torres, G J, Taylor-Robinson, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Births
Child Health
Child poverty
COVID-19
Epidemiology
Ethnicity
Health policy
Households
Infant mortality
Infants
Letter
Minority & ethnic groups
Mortality
Mortality Rate
Paediatrics
PostScript
Poverty
Public health
Risk factors
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomics
Young Children
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Summary:Correspondence to Dr Oluwaseun B. Esan, Department of Public Health Policy and Systems, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; oluwaseun.esan@liverpool.ac.uk There are stark socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in infant mortality in the UK.1 Previously, we have demonstrated that rising child poverty led to an increase in the infant mortality rate (IMR) in England following a period of sustained decline.2 Recent estimates show stagnation in improvements in IMR and increasing inequalities over the last decade in UK nations.3 This study aims to determine if previously observed social patterning of IMR is consistent across all ethnic groups. IMD is a relative area-level measure of deprivation based on income, employment, education, health, housing, crime and the living environment of approximately 1000-1500 households. [...]the use of crude descriptive statistics without data on known risk factors for IMR limits inference on causal explanations.
ISSN:0003-9888
1468-2044
1468-2044
DOI:10.1136/archdischild-2023-326619