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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 (exit DHS) and past issues (exit DHS) are available online.

Special Notice: National SIDS, Pregnancy, and Infant Loss Awareness Month (October 2008) is designed to increase national awareness of the factors that contribute to stillbirth, SIDS, suffocation, and accidental infant deaths and to urge policymakers to continue their efforts on behalf of infants and families. The First Candle Awareness Month Action Center (exit DHS) contains information on education, media, and advocacy resources, as well as opportunities to memorialize an infant's life or reach out to a family in need.

Position Available:  Program Officer for the Healthy Birth Outcomes Initiative — Wisconsin Partnership Program (exit DHS)

A Framework for Action to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes (PDF, 229 KB) (Updated July 2008)

Statewide Advisory Committee Meeting Materials, August 1, 2008

Medicaid Contact for Eligibility and Access Issues in Southeastern Wisconsin:
     Audra Brennan
     SE Wisconsin Medicaid liaison
     414-227-4317
     audrad.brennan@wi.gov

Impact of Prenatal Care Coordination on Birth Outcomes in Wisconsin (Slides, PDF,162 KB)

Elimination of Racial and Ethnic Disparities on Birth Outcomes in Wisconsin, a February 8, 2008 white paper by Richard Allan Aronson, MD, MPH (exit DHS)

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Web site for the Public Broadcasting System series, including the video "When the Bough Breaks" (exit DHS)