• Resources Distributed After the November 16^th 2012 Meeting
  • Kellogg Foundation Awards $2.75 Million to Launch Infant Mortality Initiative (link)
  • Preventing preterm births: analysis of trends and potential reductions with interventions in 39 countries with very
    high human development index (link)
  • Perinatal Quality Collaboratives Webinar Series 2012-2013 (link)

• Resources Distributed After the September 21^st 2012 Meeting
  • AMCHP September/October 2012 Newsletter with Spotlight on Infant Mortality (pdf)

• Resources Distributed After the September 30^th 2011 Meeting
  • AAP Journal: Expansion of Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment (link)

• Resources Distributed After the July 15^th 2011 Meeting
  • NCHS Data Brief: Understanding Racial & Ethnic Disparities in US Infant Mortality Rates (pdf)
  • National Healthy Start Association: Saving Our Nation's Babies (pdf)
  • Infant Mortality Provisional Findings (Kansas, 2010) (pdf)
  • NPR: Doctors to Pregnant Women: Wait at least 39 Weeks (link)
  • NPR: Rethinking SIDS (link)
  • NPR: Group Prenatal Care (link)

• Resources Distributed After the April 29^th 2011 Meeting
  • NIH News: Study Finds Increased Death Risk for Early Term Births (link)

• Resources Distributed After the February 18^th 2011 Meeting
  • Social Work in Public Health: Adverse Birth Outcomes in African American Women: The Social Context of Persistant Reproductive Disadvantage (pdf)

• Resources Distributed After the January 21^st 2011 Meeting
  • MCH Alert: Focus on Infant Mortality (January 28, 2011 Issue) (link)

• Resources Distributed After the November 19^th 2010 Meeting
  • Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report: CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report (pdf - 3MB)
  • CDC Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities: Eliminating Disparities in Infant Mortality (link)
  • March of Dimes: Toward Improving the Outcome of Pregnancy III (pdf - 3MB)
  • National Healthy Start Association: November 2010 Issue Brief (pdf - 3MB)

• Resources Distributed After the September 24^th 2010 Meeting
  • 2010 Child Death Review Board Annual Report (2008 data) (pdf - 3MB)

• Resources Distributed After the July 30^th 2010 Meeting
  • AMCHP September Newsletter with Spotlight on Infant Mortality (pdf)
  • Cultural and Linguistic Competence Assessment for FIMR Programs (pdf)

• Resources Distributed After the April 23^rd 2010 Meeting
  • Full Text of House Bill 2454 (pdf)
  • Explanation of HB2454 (pdf)
  • Report on declining mortality rate for children under 5 - Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (pdf)
  • National Vital Statistics Reports: Infant Mortality (2006) (link)
  • House and Senate approve Infant Mortality Bill - KHI article (link)

• Resources Distributed After the January 22^nd 2010 Meeting
  • Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA (pdf) CNN's Article
  • Full text of Senate Bill 448. The bill included the Panel's recommendation for improved maternal
    and child health surveillance. (link)
  • The Impact of Prenatal WIC Participation on Infant Mortality and Racial Disparities (pdf)
  • Brainstem Serotonergic Deficiency in SIDS (pdf)
    Note: Researchers utilized parental interviews to gather necessary information. This supports the Panel's recommendation to "improve data and surveillance and expanded research."
  • Excess Hispanic Fetal-Infant Mortality in a Midwestern Community (link)
  • Birth Defects Were Top Cause of Infant Death in Most Recent Data Release (link)

• Resources Distributed After the November 20^th 2009 Meeting
  • A Look at the Impact of the Recession on Women�s Family Planning and Pregnancy Decisions (pdf)
  • NY Times Article: Trying to Explain the Dane County Infant Mortality Decrease (link)
  • AMCHP November Newsletter with Spotlight on Prematurity and Preconception Health (pdf)
  • Nurses Work to Prevent Infant Mortality in the U.S. (link)
  • Infant Mortality in Greater Kansas City, Partnership for Children (Vol 1, June 2002) (pdf)

• Resources Distributed After the October 29^th 2009 Meeting
  • Mortality Rates Reduced among Children Whose Mothers Received Iron-folic Acid Supplements (link)
  • �A Wonderful Mystery�, Newsweek Article on Black Infant Mortality Drop in Dane County, Wisconsin (link)
  • Promising Practices to Improve Birth Outcomes: What Can We Learn from New York? (pdf)
  • Behind International Rankings of Infant Mortality: How the United States Compares with Europe (pdf) (link)
    • New York Times Article on U.S. � Europe Infant Mortality Comparisons (link)

• Resources Distributed After the September 18^th 2009 Meeting
  • Stillbirths And Infant Deaths Related To Smoking During Pregnancy And Socioeconomic Inequalities (link)
  • Overview of Family Planning Services Covered by States � Update from Kaiser Family Foundation (Word)
  • Articles on 1115 Family Planning Demonstration Waivers (link)

• Resources Distributed After the August 28^th 2009 Meeting
  • County and ZIP Code Data Highlights (1998-2007) (Word)
  • Socioeconomic Indicator Data, Kansas Health Institute
    • County Maps of Selected Socioeconomic Indicators (pdf)
    • For more information, please see this Kansas Health Institute website (link)
  • Dane County, Wisconsin Articles
    • Black-White Infant Mortality Gap, MMWR (link)
    • Black Infant Mortality, The Associated Press (link)
    • Saving the Babies, One Nation News (pdf)
  • National Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program (FIMR) (link)
  • Federal Healthy Start Program (link)
  • September is National Infant Mortality Awareness Month (link to National Healthy Start Association Toolkit)
  • Infant Mortality Investigative Report, Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (pdf)
  • The Challenge of Infant Mortality: Have We Reached a Plateau? (link, Public Health Reports, Sept � Oct 09)
  • Infant Mortality and Pregnancy Loss Knowledge Path (link, The Maternal & Child Health Library at Georgetown University)
  • NIH/DC Initiative to Reduce Infant Mortality
    • Overview of Initiative (link)
    • Summary of Initiative Projects (link)
  • U.S. House Resolution Passed in Honor of Infant Mortality Awareness Month (pdf)
  • AMCHP September Newsletter Featuring Infant Mortality (pdf)
  • Conference Presentations: Reducing Infant Mortality in Michigan, Lessons from the Field (See especially Michael Lu�s presentation �Racial Ethnic Disparities and Infant Mortality: A Life Course Perspective�) (link)

• Resources Distributed After the July 17^th 2009 Meeting
  • Documentation of Michigan's Grant of Authority to Conduct FIMR (pdf)
  • Notification to Covered Entities of Michigan's Authority to Conduct FIMR (pdf)
  • U.S. Senate Cosponsor Letter for Stillbirth and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) (pdf)
  • Summary of Stillbirth and SUID Prevention, Education, and Awareness Act (Word)

• Additional Resources Distributed via Email to Committee*
  • Articles
  • Perinatal Periods of Risk: Analysis of Fetal�Infant Mortality Rates in Kansas City, Missouri
  • Perinatal Periods of Risk: Analysis of Infant Mortality in Jackson County, Missouri
  • Perinatal Periods of Risk: Secular Trends in Excess Fetal and Infant Mortality
  • Racial Disparity in Low Birth Weight and Infant Mortality
  • Generations of Loss: Contemporary Perspectives on Black Infant Mortality
  • Lowering the Premature Birth Rate: What the U.S. Experience Means for Japan
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, January 2008: Racial Disparity in Infant Mortality Rates
  • Maternal Child Health, January 2007: Black/White Infant Mortality Disparities in Wisconsin
  • Maternal Child Health, January 2007: Infant Mortality, Racial Differences in Delaware
  • KU Work Group for Community Health and Development, May 2000: Promoting Health for All
  • County and Zip Code Data Prepared by Bureau of Family Health (1998 - 2007)
  • Kansas County and Zip Code Data Tables
  • Infant Mortality Rates by County
  • Infant Mortality Rates by Zip Code
  • Black, Non-Hispanic Infant Mortality Rates by County
  • Black, Non-Hispanic Infant Mortality Rates by Zip Code
  • *Please contact Connie Satzler at (785) 587-0151 or csatzler@kansas.net with questions or to have email articles re-sent.