Les Noirs américains Voir les gains d'espérance de vie

WASHINGTON — It is a bitter but basic fact in health research: Black Americans die at higher rates than whites from most causes, y compris SIDA, maladie cardiovasculaire, cancer and homicide.

But a recent trove of federal data offered some good news. L' suicide rate for black men declined from 1999 à 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,….LIRE LA SUITE