Racial disparities in preterm birth

The infant mortality rate in USA exceeds that of most other developed nations, ranking 26th among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.

This ADC Spotlight podcast is about inequity and health. Professor Heather Burris is the first author of the paper “Racial disparities in preterm birth in the US; a biosensor of physical and social environmental exposures” (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/10/931). Professor Richard David is the author of the accompanying editorial “Inequity at Birth and Population Health” (https://adc.bmj.com/content/104/10/929). Both can be found in the October edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood and on our website at adc.bmj.com.