COMMUNITY-BASED PARTNERSHIPS WEEK 4 - ASSIGNMENT

Community-Based Partnerships Week 4 - Assignment

Community-Based Partnerships Week 4 - Assignment

Introduction

Infant mortality and Low birthweight among African American women is more than twice that of white women. For Hispanics and Native Americans, the infant mortality and low birthweight rates are significantly higher than that of the white population. The low birth weight (LBW) is associated with 75% of perinatal mortality and more than 5 million child deaths that occur each year worldwide, so the index is predictive of infant mortality, more significant.

To aim at infant mortality rates below 10 should have been reducing the rate of low birth weight to 6% or less, and that its structure, 60% ??of cases are preterm pure, and the other malnourished intraútero (Allen, 1997). Infant mortality and LBW newborns provide 60% ??of neonatal deaths and nearly 4% of the infant ill. Hospital costs of care required by children with LBW were estimated at more than half of the total, since the problems generated by the BNP, not limited to but include mortality increased morbidity and impact on quality of life.

Community program

Healthy Start programs are community-driven and located in the poorest neighborhoods in the United States. Since its initiation in 1991, Healthy Start has served hundreds of thousands of families. Over 90% of all Healthy Start families are African American, Hispanic, or Native American.

Barriers

Infant mortality has always been associated with all sorts of problems, poverty, poor nutrition, premature birth, hundreds of reasons can cause a child to die, however, that black children are those with more risk has alerted many years to experts trying to figure out what are the social factors that may cause these events. In the latest study shows that directly or indirectly the African American community suffers forms of racism that affect unborn babies.

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