Making progress: the health, development and wellbeing of Australia's children and young people. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report, 24 September 2008

The report found that Indigenous Australian infants were three times as likely as other Australian children to die in the first year of life.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ( Read more... )

First a moment of seriousness. A shocking statistic in Understanding White Privilege sent me hunting for information about high African American infant mortality, and the research which links the personal experience of racism to maternal stress and lower birthweights. You can find a series of postings about this via my melanin tag at kateorman.

( Torchwood 2009 SPOILERS )