Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal And Child Health Bureau

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Health Resources and Services AdministrationMater
nal And Child Health Bureau

• Healthy Start, Perinatal and Womens Health
  Whats Happening Maribeth Badura,
  M.S.N.Dept. of Health and Human Services
  (HHS)Health Resources and Services
  Administration (HRSA)Maternal and Child Health
  Bureau (MCHB)Division of Healthy Start and
  Perinatal Services (DHSPS)October 2007   

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HEALTHY START AND PERINATAL SERVICES

• TARGET AUDIENCE
• Women Across the Lifespan
• particularly those of reproductive
  age and their infants

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HEALTHY START AND PERINATAL SERVICES

• FOCI OF PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
• The involvement of Women, Their Families and
  Communities in programmatic decision-making
  through
• Risk Prevention/Reduction
• Infrastructure/Systems Building
• Elimination of Health Disparities

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HEALTHY START AND PERINATAL SERVICES

• RISK REDUCTION/
• PREVENTION ACTIVITIES in FY2006 - 2007
• Synthesis of Emerging Practices and Lessons
  Learned from
• Interconceptional Grants
• and
• Risk Reduction Grants
• Employer Tool Kit on Worksite Lactation Support
  Programs

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HEALTHY START AND PERINATAL SERVICES

• RISK REDUCTION/PREVENTION ACTIVITIES in FY2006
  - 2007
• Innovative Approaches to Promoting a Healthy
  Weight in Women
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Earmark

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HEALTHY START AND PERINATAL SERVICES

• INFRASTUCTURE-BUILDING ACTIVITIES
• Integrated Womens Health State Infrastructure
  Programs
• Womens Behavioral Health Systems Building
• National Fetal Infant Mortality Review Resource
  Center
• National Healthy Start Leadership Training Center

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HEALTHY START AND PERINATAL SERVICES

• Perinatal Depression Earmark
• 2006 Appropriation focused on prevention and
  early intervention services for maternal and
  infant mental health
• 6 state perinatal depression grants awarded
• IA, IL, KY, LA, MA, PA

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RACIAL ETHNIC DISPARITIESINFANT MORTALITY
Year 2010 Goal 4.5 per 1,000
Per 1,000 Live Births
NCHS 2002
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HEALTHY START

• Goals
• Improve health care access and outcomes for
  populations deemed High Risk
• Promote healthy behaviors and combat the causes
  of infant mortality
• Authorizing Legislation
• Title III, Section 330H of the Public Health
  Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-8)

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HEALTHY START AND PERINATAL SERVICES

• ELIMINATING DISPARITIES IN PERINATAL HEALTH
• 92 Communities
• 2004-2008 Six Grantees
• 2005-2009 Seventy-four Grantees
• 2006-2010 Twelve Grantees

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HEALTHY START AND PERINATAL SERVICES

• ELIMINATING DISPARITIES IN PERINATAL
  HEALTH-BORDER, ALASKAN AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN
  COMMUNITIES
• 7 Communities
• 2004-2008 Two Grantees
• 2005-2009 Three Grantees
• 2007-2011 Two Grantees

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HEALTHY START AND PERINATAL SERVICES

• HEALTHY START
• Core Services Outreach, case management, health
  education, screening for depression, and
  interconceptional continuity of care.
• Core Systems Building Consumer and consortium
  involvement in policy formation and
  implementation, local health system action plan,
  collaboration with Title V, and sustainability.

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HEALTHY START AND PERINATAL SERVICES

• NATIONAL LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES
• Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality
• Federal Interagency Committees on Safe Motherhood
• Select Panel on Preconceptional Care
• Steering Committee on Preconceptional Care
• National Hispanic Prenatal Hotline

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HEALTHY START AND PERINATAL SERVICES

• NATIONAL LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES
• Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal
  Alcohol Syndrome
• National Folic Acid Campaign
• Smoke Free Families
• Bright Futures For Womens Health and Wellness
  Perinatal Focus Adaptation and Emotional
  Wellness Steering Committee on Preconceptional
  Care

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HEALTHY START AND PERINATAL SERVICES
Healthy Women Healthy Infants Healthy
Families Healthy Communities Healthy Nation

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CONTACT

• Maribeth Badura
• Director,
• Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services
• Maternal and Child Health Bureau
• Health Resources and Service Administration
• Department of Health and Human Services
• 5600 Fishers Lane
• Room 18-12, Parklawn Building
• Rockville, MD 20852
• maribeth.badura_at_hrsa.hhs.gov