Infant Mortality Prevention Among African-Americans

This article discusses the implementation of a program to prevent infant mortality among African-Americans. It emphasizes the importance of education and healthcare in addressing the factors contributing to infant mortality rates in this community.

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Implementation
Infant mortality is a crucial fact that can be stated as the death rates among 1000 live
births. This is a fact that is common among the African American people, and the rate is almost
12 per 1000 births (Center for American Progress, 2019). Hence, the factor is needed to be
considered with high priority, and there is needed to be the health care and health promotion
program performed. The activities of the program should be focused on the prevention of the ill
situation of infant mortality. The activities should be including the proper education to the
community people, especially the mothers in order to prevent the ill condition of the infant
mortality (Asiodu et al., 2017). The factor of infant mortality can be caused by the factors of
malnutrition of the mother, substance abuse, lesser knowledge about the aspect of the maternity
and the healthy living factors of this period. Hence, the primary requirement of the infant
mortality prevention program should be the empowerment of the mothers and the women of the
community. Another factor is educating the people with the factor of the required interval
between two childbirths. The factor of the socio-economy is also a stakeholder in infant
mortality. Hence, the improvement of the socio-economic structure of the African American
people by the government as well. The government needed to be informed as well for the
situation and also the stakeholder relationship should be considered for the development of the
funding for the process. In order to successfully address the condition firstly, the research of the
situation should be done, and the qualitative and the quantitative data collection should be done
(Noonan, Velasco-Mondragon & Wagner, 2016). Next, the analysis of this data should be done,
and based on the analysis the situation should be assessed. Based on the assessment, the process
of education to the people and the mothers should be provided. The interview of the people on
the belief about the factor of the infant mortality. After the assessment of the factor and believes

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of people about the education process about the maternity would be delivered with the consent of
the ethical consideration. Other than this, the health care of the mothers and the healthy living
factors should be provided to the mothers. The proper diet and the healthy living processes
would be provided to the mothers. The process would be accompanied by the revision of the
government laws on the discrimination of the health care process. The method of knowledge
development and educating the people of the African American community about the operation
of the maternity and the healthy lifestyle effects on the infant health also needed to be provided.
The ethical consideration about the data collection process and the education providence should
be considered on the basis of the human rights. The factors of the stakeholder relationship is very
much important factor for the health care and prevention program as the financial aspect should
be assessed before proceeding with the process (Shaefer, Wu & Edin, 2017). The health care
process should be considering the facts of observing the changes based on the BMI rate of the
people. Also accounting the rate of the infant mortality in a regular interval would be helpful.
The changes should be assessed as well and on the basis of the results the improvement of the
process and the changes for the program should be implemented. The program should be
dependent on the man power as well. Hence, the man power development should be considered
and the fund of the program should be collected as well. The process of the infant mortality
prevention should be able to change the condition of the environmental resources for the people
of the African American community. The lifestyle changes of the people of the community
would be helpful in the prevention of infant mortality (Cooper et al., 2016). The program also
needed to consider the factor of the maternal health over any other aspect and the health care
providence to the mothers would need to be without any discrimination of race, religion and
socio-economic structure. The mothers also provided with professional nurses in order to provide

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them proper care at the prenatal period (Kindig, 2017). Based on the discussion it can be stated
that the education and the funding for the program would play a key role in the development of
an infant mortality free community.

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