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Ethnicity and infant deaths: the implications of recent statistical evidence for materialist explanations
Author(s) -
Andrews Ahmed,
Jewson Nick
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9566.1993.tb00336.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , materialism , infant mortality , inequality , diversity (politics) , sociology , psychology , demography , epistemology , anthropology , population , philosophy , mathematical analysis , mathematics
The paper begins with a summary of recent OPCS data on ethnic inequalities in infant deaths, emphasizing the diversity of trends which they demonstrate. It continues by reviewing the implications of this evidence for materialist, and other, explanations of health inequalities. It is suggested that further progress in developing explanations for patterns of ethnic minority infant mortality would be facilitated by greater refinement of indices of economic deprivation and ethnicity.