Healthy Birth Outcomes:
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities
National and State Resources
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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.
In recognition of National Infant Mortality Awareness Month (September 2009), the National
Healthy Start Association has produced
a toolkit (PDF, 292 KB) to help Healthy Start projects promote the
effectiveness of programs and efforts to reduce infant deaths, low birthweight, preterm births,
and disparities in perinatal outcomes. Additional information and resources are available from
the Office of Minority Health campaign,
A Healthy Baby Begins with You.
- View NACCHO webcast:
"Improving Birth Outcomes: Community Strategies to Address Infant Mortality
" - May 24, 2007. Scroll down to the series
on Emerging Issues in Maternal and Child Health.
- Northern
Manhattan Perinatal Partnership, New York Nonprofit Press, February
2007 (PDF, 2253 KB)
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Last Revised: October 13, 2011
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