PMID- 31867436
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20231020
IS  - 2352-8273 (Print)
IS  - 2352-8273 (Electronic)
IS  - 2352-8273 (Linking)
VI  - 9
DP  - 2019 Dec
TI  - Inequities in newborn screening: Race and the role of medicaid(☆).
PG  - 100496
LID - 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100496 [doi]
LID - 100496
AB  - Newborn Screening (NBS) is a State-run program that mandates all newborns to be 
      screened for a panel of medical conditions to reduce infant mortality and 
      morbidity. Medicaid is a public health insurance program that expanded access to 
      care for low-income infants. NBS mandates and Medicaid rolled out state-by-state 
      in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, which are considered significant programs that 
      improved infant health in the latter half of the 20th Century. This article 
      utilized variation in States' timing of NBS mandates and Medicaid implementation 
      to examine changes in infant mortality rates among white and African American 
      infants associated with NBS, Medicaid, and their interaction. The analyses used 
      data from birth and death certificates in the US Vital Statistics from 1959 to 
      1995. We find that the implementation of NBS mandates alone was not associated 
      with significant declines in infant mortality and coincided with increases in 
      within-state racial inequities. States experienced mortality declines and 
      reduction in racial inequities after implementing Medicaid with NBS mandates.
CI  - (c) 2019 The Authors.
FAU - Sohn, Heeju
AU  - Sohn H
AD  - California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 
      337 Charles E. Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
FAU - Timmermans, Stefan
AU  - Timmermans S
AD  - Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 216 Haines Hall, 
      Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20191007
PL  - England
TA  - SSM Popul Health
JT  - SSM - population health
JID - 101678841
PMC - PMC6904787
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Infant mortality
OT  - Medicaid
OT  - Newborn screening
OT  - Race inequity
COIS- The authors do not have competing interests.
EDAT- 2019/12/24 06:00
MHDA- 2019/12/24 06:01
PMCR- 2019/10/07
CRDT- 2019/12/24 06:00
PHST- 2019/04/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/10/03 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/10/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/12/24 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/12/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/12/24 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2019/10/07 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S2352-8273(19)30135-1 [pii]
AID - 100496 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100496 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - SSM Popul Health. 2019 Oct 7;9:100496. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100496. 
      eCollection 2019 Dec.