Spotlight
Newsweek Web article: A Wonderful Mystery:
Black infant mortality has plummeted in one Wisconsin county. Why?
(exit DHS), October 22, 2009.
Journal Times (Racine) article:
Healthy Baby Campaign Starts Wednesday, Targets Blacks (exit DHS), October 14, 2009.
This fact sheet
(PDF, 82 KB) outlines the latest information and resources
on reducing sleep-related infant deaths.
Infant Mortality Awareness: Wisconsin is featured in the
September 2009 Pulse newsletter (PDF, 1,371 KB; exit DHS)
from the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs.
Save the Date: Statewide Advisory Committee on Eliminating Racial and
Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes, Nov. 23, 2009 (PDF, 19 KB).
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel editorial:
Co-Sleeping's Benefits Don't Outweigh the Risks (exit DHS),
August 29, 2009
A Response to the Crisis of Infant
Mortality in Wisconsin: Recommendations of the Statewide Advisory Committee on
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes, 2009
(PDF, 98 KB)
Statewide Advisory Committee Meeting
Materials, April 28, 2009
Save the Date: Healthy Babies Summit and AWHONN State Conference--October 15
and 16, 2009 (PDF, 598 KB)
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 (exit DHS) 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.
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