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Annotation: This Web site provides information on a study to examine the effectiveness of a statewide program of home-visiting services in Healthy Start for at-risk families in Oregon. The Web site provides information about the project design, funding source, project team, and reports and publications.

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Keywords: Families, Healthy Start, High risk families, Home visiting, Infant mortality, Infants, Oregon, Parents, Prevention, Prevention programs, Programs, State surveys, Young children

Annotation: This toolkit, designed for Healthy Start projects and community public health projects for national infant mortality awareness month, lists facts and statistics on infant mortality and includes ideas and strategies for fundraising activities, advocacy, facts and statistics, as well as tips for approaching the media.

• 2009 Toolkit
• 2010 Toolkit

Keywords: Advocacy, Healthy Start, Infant mortality, Prevention programs, Public awareness campaigns, Resource materials

Annotation: This impact report describes activities of the Healthy Start project in Dona Ana County, New Mexico, in 2005-2009. Contents include an overview of racial and ethnic disparity focused on by the project; descriptions of project implementation and services provided such as outreach and client recruitment, case management, health education and training, interconceptual care, and depression screening and referral; project management and governance; project accomplishments; and the impact of the project during its term. Also included is information about the local evaluation and recommendations and sample publications produced by the project. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Final reports, Healthy Start, Hispanic Americans, Infant mortality, Infants, Low income groups, New Mexico, Perinatal care, Pregnant women, Prevention programs, Program descriptions, Young children

Annotation: This webinar, held on October 20, 2009, discusses ways to promote health literacy among parents of young children using case managers and other home visitors. The webinar presents a case study of the Enterprise Community Healthy Start program in rural Georgia. The site includes meeting materials, speaker presentations, and a video of the webinar. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Case management, Case studies, Distance education, Georgia, Health literacy, Health promotion, Healthy Start, Home visiting

Annotation: This report describes a community-based program in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County in Pennsylvania from 2005-2009 to eliminate perinatal health disparities such as infant mortality, incidence of low birth weight, preterm delivery, and access to early prenatal care; it also discusses the need for on-going community involvement. Contents include an overview of racial and ethnic disparity focused on by the project; project implementation of core systems and services; project management and governance; accomplishments; and impact on systems of care, the community, and the state. Additional contents include a summary of the project's impact on the overall goal of eliminating perinatal health disparities, the role of local government, lessons learned, and a statement on fetal and infant mortality review. Attachments (on enclosed flash drive) include products produced during the project. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Final reports, Health status disparities, Healthy Start, Infant mortality, Low birthweight, Pennsylvania, Preterm birth, Prevention programs, Program descriptions

Annotation: This impact/final report summarizes Healthy Start community-based efforts in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County in reducing infant and perinatal health disparities with strategies directed toward reducing related logistical and psychosocial barriers to prenatal care, high rates of inadequate health insurance, and health care provider shortages. The project period includes 2005 to 2009. Report contents include an overview of racial and ethnic disparity focused on by the project; project implementation, management and governance, and accomplishments; a description of the impact of the project on systems of care, the community, the state, the role of local government, and lessons learned. A copy of the local evaluation report and the fetal and infant mortality review are also included. Additional information is provided on products produced and data gathered for program participants. Sample materials are provided on a CD-ROM and two flash drives. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Final reports, Healthy Start, Infant mortality, Low income groups, MCH programs, Pennsylvania, Prevention programs, Program descriptions

Annotation: This report provides an evidence base for Healthy Start and other perinatal health initiatives by describing the racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes and the risk factors that may be the underlying causes of differences in birth outcomes. The authors conducted a literature review to gather this information. The report, which includes an executive summary, covers the following topics: (1) racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes (including racial and ethnic trends in infant mortality and causes of infant death) and (2) risk factors for poor birth outcomes (including behavioral and biological and social risk factors). A discussion section is included. Statistical information is presented in figures and tables throughout the report. The report includes two appendices: detailed tables and a glossary. References are included.

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Keywords: Ethnic factors, Healthy Start, High risk groups, Infant death, Infant mortality, Initiatives, Literature reviews, Perinatal health, Prevention programs, Racial factors, Risk factors, Trends

Annotation: This report describes the first phase of a two-phase evaluation of the national Healthy Start program. A key objective of this phase was to provide information about the funded grantees and the implementation of the components that comprise the program. The report provides a profile of the universe of Healthy Start grantees based on self-reported data. Topics covered include Healthy Start components, staffing, outreach, enrollment, case management, health education, smoking cessation, male involvement, interconceptional care, perinatal depression services, barriers to care, consortia, consumer involvement, local health system action plans, coordination and collaboration, sustainability, and intermediate program outcomes. The report includes a logic model that describes the national Healthy Start evaluation and the hypothesized link between Healthy Start services/systems and results.

Keywords: Collaboration, Depression, Enrollment, Evaluation, Health care systems, Health education, Health services, Healthy Start, Federal programs, Infant health, Infant mortality, Outreach, Perinatal programs, Prevention programs, Smoking cessation

Annotation: This document identifies issues and obstacles facing the United States in promoting preconception care, and it recommends actions to improve women's health and thereby ensure healthier infants. The document discusses the move into a new era of well-women care; challenges; and federal, state, and local initiatives.

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Keywords: Ethnic factors, Federal programs, Health insurance, Health promotion, Healthy Start, Infant health, Initiatives, Local programs, Preconception care, Pregnancy, Racial factors, Reproductive health, State programs, Women's health

Annotation: This manual serves as a tool for collecting data on the effectiveness of Oregon's Healthy Start program, a statewide home visiting program designed to prevent child maltreatment using the Healthy Families of America program model. The manual provides an overview of the program and describes the Healthy Start data collection and evaluation system required by the Oregon legislation. It includes an overview of data collection procedures and screening and assessment tools and provides directions on how to fill out and submit the necessary intake forms, surveys, and HOME (Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment) Inventory.

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Keywords: Evaluation methods, Healthy Start, Home visiting, Injury prevention, Maltreated children, Manuals, Oregon, Outcome evaluation, Program evaluation, Public health services, State programs

Annotation: This manual provides basic program and training information to new Healthy Start staff members in Oregon on home visiting and family support for first-time parents to ensure healthy, thriving children and nurturing, caring families. Orientation topics include program goals, services, policies and operating procedures; an overview of home visiting and family support philosophy; child abuse and neglect indicators and reporting requirements; program relationship with other community resources; issues of confidentiality; and issues related to boundaries. Additional topics for home visitors include interviewing and communication skills, relationships, planning a home visit, case planning, record keeping, as well as information on promoting positive parenting.

Keywords: Case management, Family support, Healthy Start, Home visiting, Manuals, Oregon, Parent education, Parent support services, Resources for professionals, State programs

Annotation: This report describes a Healthy Start program in five rural Northeastern North Carolina counties from June 2002 through May 2006 to address and reduce family violence during and around the time of pregnancy. Topics include enhancing perinatal family violence screening and intervention, improving the referral network between local health departments and are family violence programs, improving case management of prenatal clients experiencing physical or emotional violence, enhancing perinatal outreach and client recruitment efforts, improving multidisciplinary health education, and training around family violence and women's support issues, and enhancing community commitment to eradicating family violence. Contents include a description of family violence during pregnancy in the area, a summary of goals and objectives and methodology, service coordination, and program evaluation. Results and outcomes are outlined. Appendices include sample materials developed during the project such as survey instruments and summarized answers, focus group questions and answers, sample forms used to collect data, sample policies and procedures, and sample outreach materials. . [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Final reports, Healthy Start, Infant mortality, MCH research, North Carolina, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Prevention programs, Program descriptions, Screening, Underserved populations, Violence prevention

Annotation: This report describes the Great Expectations Foundation program implementation of a Healthy Start Family Resource model, a research and demonstration program based in New Orleans, serving neighborhoods characterized by extreme poverty, low educational levels, high rates of adolescent pregnancies, high dropout rates, and concentrated areas of public housing. The project period was 2001-2004.Topics include the prevalence of adolescent pregnancy; elevated infant mortality rates and the risk factors that correlate with elevated infant mortality rates such as low birthweight; and increasing service coordination between agencies and physically locating them in the same building or very near other community-based providers. Report contents include an introduction providing background on the program and site; a description of service initiation; a review of service accomplishments; an outline of program mentoring, consortium and collaboration development; a summary of the consortium program impact; and other Healthy Start components. Appendices include local evaluation findings and data tables used in the project. A CD-ROM is included. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, Case studies, Community coordination, Final reports, Healthy Start, Infant mortality, Intervention, Local MCH programs, Louisiana, Low birthweight infants, Model programs, Prevention programs, Program descriptions, Program evaluation, Service coordination

Annotation: This report describes a Healthy Start project in seven rural parishes of northern Louisiana from June 2001 through May 2005 to improve infant mortality rates for African Americans and all populations, improve rates of low birth weight infants, and to improve adolescent birth rates. Report contents include overviews of racial and ethnic disparities focused on by the project, project implementation, project management and governance, accomplishments, and the impact of the project on systems of care, the community, the states, the role of local government, and lessons learned. Also included are various tables providing data on strategies and activities, accomplishments, and a copy of the local evaluation. Appendices include a project budget outline, data tables, and a sample of a project newsletter and brochure. A CD is provided with all reports and tables. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Access to health care, Ethnic factors, Final reports, Healthy Start, Infant mortality, Local initiatives, Louisiana, Minority groups, Prevention programs, Racial factors, Rural health

Annotation: This final report describes a Healthy Start project in East St. Louis, Illinois from June 2001 - May 2005 to concentrate on reducing infant mortality, improving perinatal indicators associated with infant mortality, increasing access to care, and closing the gap in health disparities among African Americans in the project service area. Report sections provide descriptions of the project's racial and ethnic disparity, project implementation, management and governance, accomplishments, the impact of the project, and a local evaluation report. Appendices include project forms for reporting budget and services details and statistics. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Access to health care, Blacks, Final reports, Healthy Start, Illinois, Infant mortality, MCH research, Prenatal care, Prevention programs, Prevention programs

Annotation: This report describes a Healthy Start program in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to reduce the infant mortality and co-morbidity rates from 2001-2005. Program services include case management for women and infants, outreach services such as interconceptional care and translation, health education and training, and depression screening and referrals. Report sections include an overview of racial and ethnic disparity focused on by the project; a description of the project implementation; management and governance of the project; accomplishments; the impact of the project on systems of care, the community, the state, the role of local government, and the local evaluation report. Additional information is provided on fetal and infant mortality review, a listing of products produced, and data collected during the project. Appendices include charts and data for target population and Tulsa county specific data and a performance report from the monitoring visit

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Keywords: Depression, Ethnic factors, Final reports, Health education, Health promotion, Health services delivery, Healthy Start, Infant mortality, Local programs, Oklahoma, Prevention programs, Racial factors, Screening

Annotation: This book, which is intended for students and others involved in public or community health with an interest in learning about a geographic information system (GIS), provides information on how to use a GIS to improve birth outcomes. The book is divided into the following chapters: (1) explaining the geography of infant health, (2) an introduction to GIS (data), (3) an introduction to GIS (spatial), (4) the geography of health risks, (5) GIS and spatial analysis: keeping it simple, (6) advanced spatial analysis, (7) spatial/temporal stability in neighborhoods of risk: the mobility of mothers, (8) patient confidentiality, (9) creating the Baton Rouge Healthy Start GIS, (10) bioterrorism, pregnancy, and old white men, and (11) rural health issues and their investigation in a GIS.

Keywords: Communities, Confidentiality, Geographic factors, Healthy Start, Infant health, Infant mortality, Louisiana, Mothers, Pregnancy outcome, Prevention programs, Public health, Rural populations, Urban populations

Annotation: This report describes the activities of a Healthy Start program to reduce infant mortality in four rural counties in South Carolina from February 2002 through January 2006. Report contents include an introduction to factors in South Carolina contributing to high infant mortality rates; an overview of racial and ethnic disparity focused on by the project, and project implementation, management and governance, and accomplishments. Also included is a description of the project's impact on systems of care, the community, the state, the role of local government, and lessons learned, as well as the project role of Fetal and Infant Mortality Review. Appendices include maps, grant proposals, a copy of the local evaluation report, and project data. Samples of product developed during the project are also provided. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Final reports, Healthy Start, Infant mortality, Prevention programs, Program descriptions, Rural health, South Carolina, Underserved populations

Annotation: This final report focuses on the Northwest Indiana Healthy Start project during the period February 1, 2002, through January 31, 2006. The project provided comprehensive prenatal care services to a population with high rates of low-birthweight infants and infant mortality. Report sections include (1) overview, (2) project implementation, (3) project management and governance, (4) project accomplishments, (5) project impact, (6) local evaluation, (7) fetal infant mortality review, (8) products, (9) project data, and (10) implementation plan. Also included are a variety of consumer-education materials, some of which are written in Spanish. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Final reports, Healthy Start, Indiana, Infant mortality, Low birthweight infants, Poverty, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Prevention programs, Spanish language materials

Annotation: This impact report describes a Healthy Start program in Baltimore, Maryland, from 2001 to 2005 to reduce infant mortality and improve pregnancy outcomes in the largely African American project area. Contents include an overview of racial and ethnic disparities, project implementation of Healthy Start core services and core systems building efforts, project management and governance, accomplishments, and impact. Additional information is provided on the local evaluation and the fetal and infant mortality review. Samples of products developed during the project period are also provided along with project data. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Blacks, Final reports, Healthy Start, Infant mortality, Maryland, Minority groups, Pregnant women, Prevention programs, Program descriptions