Healthy Birth Outcomes:
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Selected Media Reports
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- Newsweek Web article: A Wonderful Mystery:
Black infant mortality has plummeted in one Wisconsin county. Why?
(October 22, 2009)
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Journal Times (Racine) article: Healthy Baby Campaign Starts Wednesday, Targets Blacks (October 14, 2009)
- 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)
- DiversityTV.net clip: Coverage on African American infant mortality
in Wisconsin by Troy Shaw, including a phone interview with Secretary Karen Timberlake
(see “Crisis in Health in Wisconsin")
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Kaiser Network Newsletter article: “Minority Infant Mortality Rates High in
Kansas, Wisconsin” (August 6, 2008)
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article: More City Infants Are Dying in Bed
(July 3, 2007)
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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"
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November 05, 2009
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