Child Health
The act that provided funding for Title V
What is the Social Security Act of 1935?
These infants experience infant mortality at twice the rate of white infants
What are African-American/Black infants?
The federal agency located within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that funds Title V, the national maternal and child block grant program
What is the Maternal and Child Health Bureau?
These infants are more vulnerable to morbidity and mortality, but if they survive their life course can be relatively normal
What are premature infants?
Evidence-based, nurse home-visiting program for first-time mothers
What is the Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)?
This form of contraceptive was revolutionary and was introduced in 1960
What is the birth control pill?
This 1973 Supreme Court landmark decision was highly controversial, yet critical in women's rights
What is Roe v. Wade?
The Black maternal death ratio has been this much higher compared to the risk for Whites since the 1940s
What is three-fold/four-fold (3-4x higher)?
This organization aims to connect families in need with clean diapers
What is the National Diaper Bank Network?
One of the leading causes of deaths among adolescents ages 15-19
What are accidents/unintentional injuries (or homicide or suicide)?
This trained professional provides continuous support before, during, and after childbirth in order to achieve a healthy and satisfying birth experience for birthing people
What is a doula?
This term defines the start of conception through the first full year of postpartum
What is Perinatal?
This is the income cut-off for Mediciaid eligibility for pregnant women and children up to the age of six according to the 1989 OBRA (Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act)
What is 133% of the federal poverty level? (Though states were allowed to expand to 185%)
Organization created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 as a result of polio
What is March of Dimes?
Charles C. Chapple improved this equipment in 1938, to reduce infant mortality rates
What is the incubator?
The syndrome that is associated with the American Academy of Pediatrics "Back to Sleep" campaign
What is SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome)?
This month has a week dedicated to Maternal Mental Health
What is May?
In 1968, this expansion funded food for school-age children during the summer and extended the School Breakfast Program
What is the National School Lunch Act?
This racial/ethnic group has the highest percentage of children without health insurance in the U.S.
What is the Latinx/Latine/Hispanic population?
A NC statewide organization of MCH experts that recently created a 12-point perinatal strategic plan
What is the NC Perinatal Health Equity Collective?
This test was first developed by Dr. Robert Guthrie to determine for phenylketonuria (PKU) in newborns, then evolved into something we still use today
What is the Newborn Screening Test?
This program provides free healthy foods, personalized nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and referrals to other services for pregnant, recently pregnant, and breastfeeding women, infants and children under 5 years old
What is WIC (Women, Infants & Children)?
For pregnant women, this identification determines the nature of prenatal care and the delivery experience, as well as exposure to technological interventions, relationships with healthcare providers, and even the ability to maintain custody of infants
What is "high risk"?
The totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, healthcare, and criminal justice
These patterns and practices in turn reinforce discriminatory beliefs, values, and distribution of resources
What is structural racism
This organization centers Black mamas to advocate, drive research, build power, and shift culture for Black maternal health, rights, and justice
What is the Black Mamas Matter Alliance?