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Healthy Birth Outcomes:
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Selected Media Reports

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• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Empty Cradles" 2011 series on infant mortality:
  • Featured Coverage (ongoing)
  • City Vows to Fight Infant Mortality (January 24, 2011)
  
  
• Wisconsin State Journal: Increase in Black Infant Deaths Stumps Health Officials (March 24, 2011)
  
  
• Wisconsin Radio Network: Lawmakers Discuss Reducing Infant Mortality (Nov. 16, 2010)
  
  
• Journal-Times (Racine) article: Group Gets Grant to Target Infant Mortality (March 26, 2010)
  
  
• Newsweek Web article: A Wonderful Mystery: Black infant mortality has plummeted in one Wisconsin county. Why? (October 22, 2009)
  
  
• Journal Times (Racine) article: Healthy Baby Campaign Starts Wednesday, Targets Blacks (October 14, 2009)
  
  
• Infant Mortality Awareness: Wisconsin is featured in the September 2009 Pulse newsletter (PDF, 1.3 MB) from the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs.
  
  
• Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel editorial: Co-Sleeping's Benefits Don't Outweigh the Risks (August 29, 2009)
  
  
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article: Infant Mortality Fight Gets $10 Millon Boost in State (Feb. 15, 2009)
  
  
• Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Web site for the Public Broadcasting System series, including the video "When the Bough Breaks" (exit DHS)
  
  
• Wisconsin Public Radio series:  Infant Mortality (audio link, September 24, 2008)
  
  
• WISN.com: Wisconsin's Infant Mortality Rate Rivals that of Third-World Country (video link, September 25, 2008)
  
  
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article: More City Infants Are Dying in Bed (July 3, 2007)
  
  
• Wisconsin Public Radio audio archive: Infant mortality in Racine (Scroll down to the link for Wednesday, June 27, 2007, 7:00 a.m.)
  
  
• Press Release from Representative Cory Mason - May 17, 2007
  "Mason/Lehman Budget Motion to Combat Infant Mortality in Racine Passes Unanimously" (PDF, 75 KB)

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Last Revised:  July 25, 2011