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Data from a metropolitan aggregate comprising three Ohio cities for the years 1959–61, 1969–71 and 1979–81 reveal some noteworthy variations over time in the nature and magnitude of the traditional inverse association between economic status and infant mortality. This brief paper describes these variations and offers an explanation for the observed temporal changes that relates the influence of medical and infant health care advances to the prevailing overall economic situation.
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The research on which this paper is based has been supported by the Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Children's Services Research Grants Program (Grant MCJ-390520-01); Bureau of Community Health Services, HSA, PHS, DHHS. Direct correspondence to Edward G. Stockwell, Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403.
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Stockwell, E.G., Swanson, D.A. & Wicks, J.W. Temporal variations in the relationship between infant mortality and economic status. Soc Indic Res 20, 217–227 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00302464
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