Understanding Disparities in Perinatal Health & Birth Outcomes: Emerging Trends & Perspectives

Monday, May 8, 2006, 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET

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Presentations

"Disparities in Perinatal and Birth Outcomes: National Trends and Contributing Factors", Paul Wise, M.D., M.P.H

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"Reducing Disparities in Perinatal Outcomes: Looking Upstream", Paula Braveman, MD, MPH

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General Information Slides

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Federal and Federally-Supported Resources

Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.dhhs.gov/
Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau
http://mchb.hrsa.gov/
- Bureau of Primary Health Care
  http://bphc.hrsa.gov/
Maternal and Child Health Library
http://www.mchlibrary.info/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/default.htm
- Office of Minority Health
  http://www.cdc.gov/omh/AboutUs/disparities.htm
National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Safe Motherhood Program
http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/
Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
http://www.cdc.gov/PRAMS/index.htm
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov
- National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2005
  http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr05/nhdr05.htm
National Institutes of Health, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
http://ncmhd.nih.gov/

Academic Resources

The Johns Hopkins University, Women and Children’s Health Policy Center
http://www.jhsph.edu/wchpc/
Northwestern University, Center on Social Disparities and Health
http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/c2s/index.html
University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities
http://www.jhsph.edu/wchpc/
University of Michigan, Michigan Initiative on Inequalities in Health
http://www.sph.umich.edu/miih/
Harvard Center for Society and Health
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/society/index.html
Stanford University, Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research
http://chppcor.stanford.edu/

Private Sector Resources

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
http://www.amchp.org
The Commonwealth Fund
http://www.cmwf.org
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.kff.org/
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
http://www.rwjf.org/
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
www.wkkf.org/

Selected Publications

Braveman P. Health disparities and health equity: concepts and measurement. Annu Rev Public Health. 2006;27:167-94. Available at: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/
Braveman PA, Cubbin C, Egerter S, Chideya S, Marchi KS, Metzler M, Posner S. Socioeconomic status in health research: one size does not fit all. JAMA. 2005 Dec 14;294(22):2879-88. Available at: http://jama.ama-assn.org/
Braveman PA, Egerter SA, Cubbin C, Marchi KS. An approach to studying social disparities in health and health care. Am J Public Health. 2004 Dec;94(12):2139-48. Available at: http://www.ajph.org/
Chen E, Martin AD, Matthews KA. Understanding health disparities: the role of race and socioeconomic status in children’s health. American Journal of Public Health. April 2006;96:702–708. Available at http://www.ajph.org/
Collins JW, Jr., David RJ, Handler A, Wall S, Andes S. Very low birthweight in African American infants: the role of maternal exposure to interpersonal racial discrimination. American Journal of Public Health. December 2004;94:2132–2138. Available at http://www.ajph.org/
Egerter S, Marchi K, Cubbin C, Braveman P, Salganicoff A, Ranji U. Disparities in maternal and infant health: are we making progress? Lessons from California. San Francisco: The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation; fall 2004. Available at: http://www.kff.org/womenshealth/7157.cfm
Gee GC. A multilevel analysis of the relationship between institutional and individual racial discrimination and health status. American Journal of Public Health. April 2002;92:615–623. Available at http://www.ajph.org/
Goldhagen J, Remo R, Bryant T III, Wludyka P, Dailey A, Wood D, Watts G, Livingood W. The health status of Southern children: a neglected regional disparity. Pediatrics. 2005;116:746–753. Available at: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/doi/10.1542/peds.2005-0366.
Howell E, Pettit K, Kingsley T. Trends in Maternal and Infant Health in Poor Urban Neighborhoods: Good News from the 1990s but Challenges Remain. Public Health Reports July/August 2005. 120(4):409-417. Available at http://www.publichealthreports.org/
Kahn RS, Wilson K, Wise PH. Intergenerational health disparities: socioeconomic status, women’s health conditions, and child behavior problems. Public Health Reports. July–August 2005;120:399–408. Available at http://www.publichealthreports.org/
Kahn RS, Zuckerman B, Bauchner H, Homer CJ, Wise PH. Women’s health after pregnancy and child outcomes at age 3 years: a prospective cohort study. American Journal of Public Health. August 2002;92:1312–1318. Available at http://www.ajph.org/
Lu MC, Halfon N. Racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes: a life course perspective. Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2003;7(1):13-30. Available at: www.kluweronline.com/issn/1092-7875
Shi L, Stevens GD, Wulu JT Jr, Politzer RM, Xu J. America's health centers: reducing racial and ethnic disparities in perinatal care and birth outcomes. Health Serv Res. 2004 Dec;39(6 Pt 1):1881-901. Available at: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/hesr
Wise PH. The transformation of child health in the United States. Health Affairs. 2004;23(5):9–25. DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.23.5.9. Available at: http://www.healthaffairs.org/
Wise PH. The anatomy of a disparity in infant mortality. Annu Rev Public Health. 2003;24:341-62. Epub 2001 Nov 6. Review. Available at http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/