Connected Terms: • Infant, Newborn • Infant, Low Birth Weight • Mortality • Health Equity • Infant Mortality
This link is to the Marion County Public Health Department's comprehensive community health assessment (CHA) report on maternal, infant, and young child (0-4 years of age) health. For the complete CHA report (all age groups), please refer to http://marionhealth.org/mcphd-community-health-assessment-2014/ instead of the above link.
County health rankings provides the percentage of live births with low birthweight (< 2,500 grams), by county. Counties can be compared and contrasted with easy data and map export.
Neonatal and infant mortality rates among racial/ethnic minority residents were higher than among White residents of Marion County during 2016 and 2017. Black residents carried the highest burden of disease with rates more than twice that of White residents (DR3737).
Non-Hispanic Black women in Marion County had higher rates of infant mortality, often double the rate of their non-Hispanic white counterparts. Furthermore, non-Hispanic black infants are born with low birth weight almost twice as often as their non-Hispanic White peers, with rates staying between 12%-15% over the past 10 years. Hispanic women have the lowest rates of low birth weight, never exceeding 8% during the ten-year period. Non-Hispanic white women have higher rates of low birth weight births than Hispanic women, but lower rates than non-Hispanic blacks and overall Marion County rates, DR3484).
The maternal smoking rate among Marion County residents was highest among whites, followed by black and Hispanic residents (DR3484).
This graph show the percentage of premature births (less than 37 weeks) in Marion County, by race/ethnicity, from 2007-2016 (DR3484).
This graph show the percentage of very low birth weight births (less than 1,500 grams) in Marion County, by race/ethnicity, from 2007-2016 (DR3484).
This graph shows the percentage of low birth weight births (less than 2,500 grams) in Marion County from 2007-2016. African Americans had the highest rate of low birth weight births for all years reported (DR3484).
This graph illustrates neonatal infant mortality rates (age less than 28 days) by race/ethnicity from 2007-2016 (DR3484).
This graph shows infant mortality rates in Marion County by race/ethnicity from 2007-2016.
