Unnatural Causes, Ep. 2: When the Bough Breaks

28 minutes, 2008, United States

Produced by California Newsreel with Vital Pictures, Inc.

Unnatural Causes, Ep. 2: When the Bough Breaks

Infant mortality rates among African Americans remain twice as high as among whites. African American women with graduate degrees still face a greater risk of delivering pre-term, low birth-weight babies than white women who didn't finish high school. In this medical detective story, researchers are circling in on the added burden of racism through the life-course as a long-term risk factor. 

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