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Infant Mortality Rates: Failure to Close the Black-White Gap. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session (March 16, 1984).
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1984
This hearing was held in response to a request from the Congressional Black Caucus, which asked the subcommittees to find out if the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was doing everything possible to reduce infant mortality, especially the high death rate experienced by Blacks. The hearing opened with statements by both subcommittee…
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