4107.0 Improving perinatal outcomes across racial/ethnic borders: Examining persistent disparities

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 10:30 AM
Oral
This session will include current rates and trends in racial/ethnic disparities in perinatal outcomes, present innovative behavioral and policy-based intervention strategies for reducing such disparities, and describe strategies for convening a diverse cross-section of professionals for addressing this public health problem.
Session Objectives: 1. Describe the persistent racial/ethnic disparity in adverse birth outcomes 2. Identify behavioral and policy-based intervention strategies for addressing racial/ethnic disparities in perinatal outcomes 3. List different strategies for establishing effective multidisciplinary partnerships for addressing racial/ethnic disparities in perinatal outcomes
Organizers:
Tyan Parker Dominguez, PhD, MPH, MSW , Janine Lewis, MPH and Judith R. Katzburg, PhD, MPH, RN
Moderator:
Tyan Parker Dominguez, PhD, MPH, MSW

Welcoming Remarks -- Tyan Parker Dominguez, PhD, MPH, MSW, Moderator
10:40 AM
Improving Pregnancy Outcomes: The Surgeon General's Conference on Preterm Birth
Janis Biermann, MS
     
10:55 AM
Trends in maternal characteristics, low birth weight (LBW) and preterm birth (PTB) rates among U.S. non-Hispanic Black women, 1991 - 2004
Cynthia D. Ferre, Arden Handler, DrPH, Jason Hsia, PhD, Wanda Barfield, MD, MPH and James W. Collins, MD, MPH
11:10 AM
Very Premature Birth Rates Reduced in an Integrated Behavioral Intervention Targeting High Risk Pregnancy in African American Residents of the District of Columbia
Ayman El-Mohandes, MBBCh, MD, MPH, Michele Kiely, DrPH, Marie Gantz, PhD and M. Nabil El-Khorazaty, PhD
     
11:25 AM
Triangulation of formative data in an infant mortality prevention campaign
May G. Kennedy, PhD, MPH, Allison Sepulveda, MA, Judith Bradford, PhD, Sheryl Garland, Saba Masho, MD, MPH, DrPH and Wally R. Smith, MD
     
Discussion

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Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Community Health Workers SPIG, Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus

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