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Healthy Birth Outcomes:
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities
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External Links
Region V Infant Mortality Summit 2013
- 3rd Annual Infant Mortality Summit: Changing
the Determinants of Health - June 6, 2012
- Birthing Project USA: An international organization and
resource center for improving birth outcomes for women of color.
- The Center for Urban Population Health was established in 2001 as a partnership
of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Aurora Health Care, and the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee's College of Health Sciences. The Center's mission is to conduct and facilitate original population
health research and educational initiatives that improve the health of urban communities through collaboration with
academic and community organizations. The research program is population-focused and community-based, with a health
and wellness perspective and a strong commitment to cultural diversity. The Center's research programs focus on projects
that address the health needs of women and children, the aging population, minority groups, and the economically
disadvantaged.
- The mission of The Commonwealth Fund is to promote a
high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly
for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children,
and elderly adults.
- Contra Costa (California) Health Department:
Integrating a Life Course Perspective (PDF, 266KB)
- Contra Costa (California) Health Department:
A 12-Point Plan to Close the Black-White Gap in Birth Outcomes: A Life Course Approach
(PDF, 171 KB)
- Diversitydata.org
allows visitors to explore how metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. perform on a diverse range of
social measures.
- Legislative
Council Special Committee on Infant Mortality: May 11, 2011 letter to the members of the Wisconsin legislature's
Special Committee on Infant Mortality concerning March ballot results.
- Mapping Health creates original visualizations and apps for
exploring or managing health data.
- MCH Alert
is a weekly newsletter from the Maternal
and Child Health Library at Georgetown University. MCH Alert: Focus on Infant Mortality
is developed by the Maternal and Child Health Library in collaboration with the National Sudden and Unexpected
Infant/Child Death and Pregnancy Loss Resource Center.
Current and past issues are available online.
- The MCH Library at Georgetown University provides
information related to maternal, infant, and child health goals and objectives for Healthier People 2010/2020.
- Milwaukee Life Course Initiative for Healthy Families
- Northern
Manhattan Perinatal Partnership (PDF, 2,253 KB), New York Nonprofit Press,
February 2007.
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
Knowledge Path: A selection of current, high-quality resources about preventing, identifying, and
eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health.
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text4baby is a free mobile
information service that provides timely health information to women from early pregnancy through their babies'
first year. The service sends important health tips that are timed to the mother's stage
of pregnancy or the baby's age.
- The UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities
is a multi-disciplinary program
of the David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and the UCLA School of Public Health, with faculty
participation from the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, School of Law, and the College of Letters
and Sciences. The Center's mission is to improve society's ability to provide children with the best opportunities
for health and well-being, and the chance to assume productive roles within families and communities.
- W2W4HB (Women to Women for Healthy
Babies) Video Sharing Campaign
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April 16, 2013
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