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Healthy Birth Outcomes:
Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Statewide Advisory Committee

March 9, 2007

Presentations:

• Eliminating Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes: Overview & Purpose (PDF, 40 KB)
  Sheri Johnson, PhD, State Health Officer and DPH Administrator, Department of Health Services
• Disparities in Birth Outcomes: Data Trends, Evidence-based and Best Practices (PDF, 469 KB)
  Murray L. Katcher, MD, PhD, and Patrice M. Onheiber, MPA, Department of Health Services
• Community Health Improvement Process to Eliminate Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes (PDF, 32 KB)
  Sheri Johnson, PhD, State Health Officer and DPH Administrator, Department of Health Services
• Monitoring Progress in Eliminating Racial & Ethnic Disparities (PDF, 81 KB)
  Matthew Landis, UW Population Health Fellow, Bureau of Health Information and Policy, Department of Health Services

Reference Material:

• Northern Manhattan Perinatal Partnership, New York Nonprofit Press, February 2007 (PDF, 2253 KB)
• Birth Outcomes Compendium (exit DHS, PDF, 322 KB)
  This compendium profiles state-level programs aimed at improving birth outcomes through a variety of approaches which meet the diverse needs of the states. It is intended to be a source of information sharing among state public health agencies to help them achieve optimal birth outcomes. Twenty-one states and one territory contributed program information to the compendium.
  
• "Maternal Upward Socioeconomic Mobility and Black-White Disparities in Infant Birthweight." Cynthia G. Colen, PhD; Arline T. Geronimus, ScD, John Bound, PhD; Sherman A. James, PhD.  Am J Public Health.  2006;96(11):2032-2039. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the 1970 US Census were used to complete a series of logistic regression models. 
• Toolkit Targets Decreasing Health Disparities in Medicaid Managed Care  (PDF, 697 KB)
  This new toolkit, Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities: A Quality Improvement Initiative in Medicaid Managed Care, is designed to assist managed care organizations and state agencies to initiate innovative quality improvement strategies to address health disparities. The toolkit was created by a collaborative workgroup made up of 11 Medicaid health plans and one state primary care case management program. Targeting three key areas: birth outcomes and immunizations, asthma care, and diabetes care, the toolkit includes discussion of key lessons from the workgroup, case study examples, and a resource section with tool samples. 

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