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The second I read the title I just knew "guns and cars".
Prematurity and SIDS are weird though, I could come up with many speculative theories. Do we have evidentially backed explanations as to why the US is so much worse in these regards?
Lack of access to healthcare / nutrition
If you broke these stats out by racial group I am sure the numbers would be shocking. There's probably parts of the south where black infant mortality rivals Syria or something
Edit:
Low birth weight is the biggest driver and suggests nutrition, maternal complications tie to lack of healthcare, congenital malformations suggest environmental racism is also a factor at play here
Edit2: looking around a bit I wasn't too far off, the worst published counties in Alabama and Mississippi are at 15-16 which is just a hair shy of Syria's 16.5
And those are the published stats, I am sure the worst counties don't publish bc they don't even have the infrastructure for collecting
And if you're curious where the white rate of 4.5 sits....
Right behind Cuba
Links for those two articles:
https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/infant-health-and-mortality-and-blackafrican-americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_and_under-five_mortality_rates
Ty for sparing me some lib saying "source?"
death to america
Of course