Assessment of Prenatal and Health Care

Paper Summary:

This paper is a study that investigates infant mortality of babies born to African-American women in Georgia for the years between 2000-2005. It looks at five public health districts all within the state of Georgia with the highest and lowest rates of infant mortality. The author has included a literature review and several tables and diagrams.

Outline:
Introduction
Purpose of Study
Literature Review
Five Health Districts with Highest Infant Mortality Rate
Infant Mortality Rate - Contributing Factors
Social Cognitive Theory
Summary and Conclusion
Recommendations

From the Paper:

"Infant rate mortality in Georgia is extremely high and is an indicator of the overall poor status of health among women and children in this state. Between 1990 and 2000, it is reported that Georgia was among the states with the highest rate of infant deaths. In 1990 the infant morality rate in Georgia was at 12.4 deaths for each 1,000 live births and decreasing to 8.5 per 1,000 in 1998. The infant death rate among the white population is 6.1 per 1,000 while the African American population was stated at a much greater rate of 13.5 per 1,000, which is over twice as high as infant death rates among the white population in the state of Georgia. (Georgia Department of Human Resources: Infant Mortality Fact Sheet, 2000)"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Allan M. Brandt (1985) "Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study," in Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers, eds., Sickness and Health In America; Readings in die History of Medicine and Public Health, second edition, revised (Madison, 1985), 331.
• Ashman, Rene L. (2005) Infant Mortality Rates and Financial Stability. Pace University - DigitalCommons. Online available at: http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=honors_college_class_research_papers
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