Los americanos negros ver aumentos en la esperanza de vida

WASHINGTON — It is a bitter but basic fact in health research: Black Americans die at higher rates than whites from most causes, incluso SIDA, enfermedad del corazón, cáncer and homicide.

But a recent trove of federal data offered some good news. La suicide rate for black men declined from 1999 a 2014, making them the only racial group to experience a drop. Infant mortality is down by more than a fifth among blacks since the late 1990s, double the decline for whites. Births to teenage mothers, which tend to have higher infant mortality rates,….LEER MÁS