Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Proceedings of the 1989 Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics: July 17-19, 1989
In looking at the health of infants-the persistent racial differences in mortality and morbidity are marked. Although infant mortality has declined for both groups, the mortality rate for black infants remains almost twice that for whites (figure Provisional estimates show the 1988 infant mortality rate essentially unchanged from that of 1987, further evidence of the slowing in the rate of decline in infant mortality observed since the late l970's.
For the overall population, the expectation of life at birth reached a record high of years. However, life expectancy for black males is continuing the general downward movement observed since 1984.
The health care delivery system is changing. Only recently most surgery was performed in the hospital, most medical care delivered in the doctor's office. Today there is an array of health care settings, brought about in part by new technology and by new forms of payment and reimbursement for services. Surgi-centers, urgi-centers, hospices, and home health care now offer mainstream health services which compete with or complement the traditional health care establishments.
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