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Focus Magazine

Focus Magazine

July/August (35/4)

July/August 2007 Focus -Full Issues

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In This Issue...
1 Addressing the Crisis of Infant Mortality: An Examination of Race and Gender

1 African American Women and Breastfeeding

2 From the President’s Desk

3 Infant Mortality Rates: An Indication of Overall Well-Being

5 Relationality: A Response to Infant Mortality

7 Girls in the ‘Hood: Sexual Culture and Its Implications for Youth

9 The Effects of A Lifetime: The Impact of Racial Discrimination on Birth Outcomes, Q&A with Drs. James W. Collins, Jr. and Richard David

19 Reports of the Joint Center Health Policy Institute’s Infant Mortality Commission

20 Joint Center Updates

11 Health Report: Maternal Nutrition and Infant Mortality

13 Economic Report: The Tragic Loss of the Summer Jobs Program: Why it is Time to Reinstate!

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Did You Know?

Infant mortality is an especially troubling problem among African Americans. Black babies are more than twice as likely to die before they reach their first birthday as white babies. However, black women breastfeed at the lowest rates of any racial group in our nation. Learn more.