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The Link Between Black Women's Health and Infant Mortality Orlando, FL January 12, 2006 The Birth Place, a unique birthing center and midwifery practice, today announced Our Black Babies Are DYING! a conference focused on the state of black women's health in Florida. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the event is being held Saturday January 14th 2006 at the Holy Trinity Reception and Conference Center (1217 Trinity Woods Lane, Maitland). The purpose of this event is to raise awareness of the infant mortality rate among black women in Florida.
The continued, dire state of Black infant mortality and poor perinatal outcomes is of grave concern to health care practitioners and providers, as well as to the public at large, said Ms. Jennie Joseph, clinical director of The Birth Place and organizer of the conference. The more women know, the more they are able to help themselves and this conference is designed with them in mind.
To: Florida Health Care Advocates - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
From: Becky Martin, Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN),
Education & Outreach Coordinator
Re: Citizens' Health Care Working Group Community Meeting - Miami 3/9/06
The federally-funded, bi-partisan Citizens' Health Care Working Group will hold
a Community Meeting in Miami - March 9, 2006 at Wyndham Grand Bay, 2669 South
Participate in National Wear Red Day on Friday, February 3:
Wear Red to Support Women and Heart Disease Awareness
Friday, February 3, 2006, is National Wear Red Day—a day when Americans nationwide will take women's health to heart by wearing red to show their support for women's heart disease awareness. More women die of heart disease than all cancers combined, yet only 20 percent of women identify heart disease as the greatest health problem facing women today and most fail to make the connection between its risk factors and their personal risk of developing heart disease.
Information on High Blood Pressure
http://www.4woman.gov/faq/bloodpress.htm#1
Lower your heart disease risk
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/hearttruth/lower/index.htm
The Heart Truth women of color initiative
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/hearttruth/partners/women_color.htm
The Heart Truth for African American Women: An action plan
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/hearttruth/material/factsheet_aa.pdf
When midwife Jennie Joseph first arrived in Orlando, in 1989 she had no idea that the word “disparity” could apply to medical care or health outcomes. A product of the British National Healthcare System, Joseph expected that all citizens would have access to healthcare whenever they needed it, no matter what their financial status. Sixteen years later, and still trying to come to terms with the “American Way” of health, Joseph is launching Nubian Health Network- a women’s resource database, information and support network.
