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Annotation: This webinar was held on December 9, 2010, as the fourth in a series of quarterly webinars to strengthen sudden unexpected infant death (SUID), sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), infant safe sleep, and bereavement services across the United States. It focuses on new perspectives and recommendations related to addressing racial disparities in infant sleep practices. Topics include the National Infant Sleep Position Study, barriers to following the supine sleep position recommendation, the influence of mothers' beliefs on infant sleep position, and infant sleep location. The webinar also includes a brief discussion of the National SAFE Study. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Infant death, Infant health, Parenting attitudes, Prevention, Preventive health services, Racial factors, Research, Risk factors, SIDS, Safety, Sleep position

Annotation: This paper provides information on the Always Right program, which educates adolescents in New York City about safe infant sleep and SIDS reduction practices. The paper describes the program, discusses the actions taken as a result of it, and explains why it works. Information on the National Center for Cultural Competence is included.

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Keywords: Sleep position, Adolescent attitudes, Adolescent parents, Adolescents, Community programs, Cultural competence, Infant death, Model programs, New York, Prevention, SIDS, Sleep environment

Annotation: This bulletin summarizes a panel presentation from the National Fetal and Infant Mortality Review Program's Fifth National Conference, held August 12-14, 2004 in Washington, DC. It explores the cultural traditions of Hmong, African American, and Jewish families grieving the loss of a pregnancy or infant. It is the third in a series focused on cross-cultural grief and loss and provides an updated review of the literature. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Bereavement, Blacks, Child death, Cultural factors, Death attitudes, Ethnic factors, Ethnic groups, Fetal death, Grief, Infant death, Neonatal death, Perinatal bereavement, Pregnancy loss, Religion

Annotation: This report discusses: (1) the percentage of the adult population that has experienced the death of a child, at what age, and from what causes, (2) sources of support which were most helpful and unhelpful in parent's grief journey, (3) awareness of and use of support organizations such as The Compassionate Friends, and (4) the relationship between parental grief and divorce. The second part of the report is the supporting data tables.

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Keywords: Bereavement, Children, Death, Death attitudes, Divorce, Grief, Parents, Social support, Statistics

Annotation: The articles in this book are based on papers presented at seminars on "Children and Health Care: Moral and Social Issues" at East Carolina University School of Medicine in Greenville, North Carolina, in the fall of 1986. The first section examines children's needs for health care and the history of U.S. federal initiatives to provide for those needs. The second section explores children's own views of sickness and death. In the third section, the editors raise questions about what role children should have in health care choices, and what the limits of parental authority should be; they are adressed from moral as well as legal standpoints. The final section reflects on the role of the pediatrician indirectly caring for children.

Keywords: Child advocacy, Child health, Conferences, Death, Decision making, Federal MCH programs, Health attitudes, Health policy, Health services, Moral values, Pediatricians, Role, Social factors

Annotation: This pamphlet offers practical guidance for parents and teachers in helping children cope with death. The material is drawn from counseling and consulting experiences with bereaved families, and provides straightforward answers to questions which may arise during the death-funeral-mourning process.

Keywords: Attitudes, Bereavement, Coping, Death, Grief, Parent education, Parenting