Improving Birth Outcomes Requires Closing the Racial Gap

The article presents an editorial in which the authors argue that racial disparities in the U.S. must be addressed in the process of decreasing national infant mortality rates as of January 2014. Topics include health care disparities, the initiatives of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, birth outcome improvement programs, structural racism that adversely impacts some African Americans, and the potential prioritization of maternal and child health.