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

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• State Health Officials Focus on Reducing Prematurity and Infant Mortality - April is Minority Health Month (DHS news release, April 10, 2013)



• Opinion: Reduce Poverty to Improve Overall Health (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 4, 2013)



• Infant Mortality Rates Decline Slightly but Ongoing Efforts Needed (DHS news release, Sept. 24, 2012)



• BMO Harris to Donate $750,000 to Fight Infant Mortality (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Sept. 10, 2012)



• City to Partner with United Way to Fight Infant Mortality (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 27, 2011)



• Wisconsin's efforts to reduce disparities in infant mortality were featured in the July 2011 ASTHO (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials) President's Challenge on Health Equity:  Wisconsin Reaches Out to Reduce Infant Mortality.



• Wisconsin State Journal: Increase in Black Infant Deaths Stumps Health Officials (March 24, 2011)



• U.W. School of Medicine and Public Health LIHF projects get under way.



• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Empty Cradles" 2011 series on infant mortality:
  • Featured Coverage (ongoing)
  • City Vows to Fight Infant Mortality (January 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)
  
  
• 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:  May 16, 2013