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Healthy Birth Outcomes:
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Selected Research

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This page will feature selected research efforts that seek to understand and identify ways to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes.

  • Impact of Prenatal Care Coordination on Birth Outcomes in Wisconsin (Slides; PDF,162 KB). Julie A. Willems Van Dijk, August 13, 2008.

  • Racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes: A life-course perspective.  (Michael C. Lu and N. Halfon, Maternal Child Health Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1, pages 13-30, March 2003).  Abstract and information on accessing the full article is available here.

  • Disparities in Infant Mortality:  What's Genetics Got to Do With It? (Richard David and James Collins, Jr., American Journal of Public Health, July 2007). Abstract and information on accessing the full article is available here.

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Last Revised:  July 25, 2011