Court-mandated redistricting and disparities in infant mortality and deaths of despair

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Between Congressional District Disparities (Mean Logarithmic Deviation) between 113th-115th and 116th Congresses, for infant mortality by race-ethnicity and deaths of despair by educational attainment

	Congress 113—115	Congress 116	Absolute Difference
Racial-Ethnic category specific IM disparities
Hispanic	0.018	0.025	0.007
Non-Hispanic White	0.022	0.028	0.007
Non-Hispanic Black	0.018	0.012	−0.006
Non-Hispanic Asian/ American Pacific Islander	0.211	0.210	−0.001
Non-Hispanic “Other”	0.105	0.086	−0.019
Education Attainment specific DoD disparities
Less than High School	0.028	0.024	−0.004
High School	0.030	0.037	0.008
Some College/Associate's Degree	0.024	0.025	0.001
Bachelor/Master/Doctoral Degree	0.021	0.029	0.008

The mean logarithmic deviation (MLD) is calculated as the weighted average of subgroup-specific rates, using the overall proportion of each subgroup in the population as the weight, and summarizes the disproportionality between shares of mortality and shares of population. Absolute difference is calculated as the MLD in the 116 minus the 113–115 MLD

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