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Hi everyone.
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My name is amani seals and I did my project on a
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health care program and facility dedicated to african american maternal health.
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Um,
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so understanding maternal and infant mortality is pretty important
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to understand the purpose of this facility and program.
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So
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maternal mortality is the death of a woman during pregnancy
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or up to one year following the end of pregnancy,
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regardless of the pregnancy's outcome.
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And infant mortality is the death of an infant before his or her 1st birthday.
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Some stakeholders
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for this project are african american women.
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So, african american women are not being listened to about their health
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and health care facilities, which then poorly affects their health outcomes.
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African american Children,
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african american infants and newborns have the highest infant mortality
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rates and the highest rate for adverse birth outcomes.
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Um,
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African american families.
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So,
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african americans as a whole face adverse health outcomes due to stigma and myths.
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Some background information. So
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the
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and for mortality rate for african american infants in
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Ohio for 2019 was 14.3 per 1000 verbs,
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compared to 6.9, which was the overall infant mortality rate
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And 5.1, which was the white infant mortality rate.
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In Ohio.
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African American women are 2.5 times more likely to
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die from pregnancy related causes than white women.
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The infant mortality rate for Kyle Hoga County in 2021 was 7.04,
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but the African American infant mortality rate was 10.9 compared
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to Hispanic infant mortality rate being 4.4 and white beeping
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5.17.
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The leading causes for infant mortality
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in Ohio are prematurity related conditions,
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birth defects and sudden infant death syndrome.
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So this
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chart shows pregnancy related deaths rate by race.
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As we can see from this chart,
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African americans have the highest pregnancy related death rate,
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all of that
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american indian and Alaskan natives,
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but there's still a high disproportion
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oh,
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in a large difference. And
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african americans with the rest.
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And this
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chart shows the percent of births we have selected risk factors.
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So basically just showing the adverse birth outcomes.
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So for the first two,
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we can see that african americans have the highest percent of
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births with preterm births and also with low birth weight.
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Um
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compared to the other races. Yet they don't have the
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the largest percent of births with late or no prenatal care.
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That is native Hawaiian and other pacific Islanders.
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And I said before this graph just goes along with my point saying,
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african american infants have the highest mortality rate.
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Um
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as you can see, they have 10.8 compared to their white counterparts to have
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4.6 and Hispanic having 4.9 and the rest are still lower than African American
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infant mortality rate.
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So this facility will offer a safe space for african american women,
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education on how to manage chronic conditions while pregnant such as diabetes,
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high blood pressure, obesity and heart disease.
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Um, Prenatal and post natal programs that benefit the patient's health,
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healthy like skills workshops, certified or slash registered nurses, doctors,
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midwives and doulas and also would like to have information on where black women um
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who would be our clientele
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can find black doctors within the area to make them feel more comfortable.
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So my partners would be university hospitals.
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On university hospitals has a evidence based program
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called Centering Pregnancies which is designed to educate expectant
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mothers and provided network of support virtual Cleveland which
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is a collaboration of Cleveland area health organizations,
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advocates and leaders dedicated to reducing
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and for immortality
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Cleveland clinic because they offer a peer to peer support in prenatal care,
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pregnant with possibilities Research
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Resource center
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because they provide and support the area's
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black community to improve birth outcomes.
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And
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there is a proposed birthing center that
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it's supposed to be built
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in the fall of this year.
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It's already a program and it's called Birthing
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Beautiful Communities.
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And they go through larger hospitals offering labor and delivery,
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early labor and delivery doulas.
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But they are working on getting their own
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facility finance. So
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if I were to make this organization, I would like to partner with them.
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So the action plan creating a safe space.
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Every aspect of this facility will be
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research based and facilitated by african american
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women for african american women allowing for
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an increased level of comfort and success
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education. So we'll provide clients on education and resources,
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uncommon pregnancy related health complications that often occur in black women
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um
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programs and workshops.
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The programs and workshops will be held on research based topics that
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will not only improve the health outcome of the mother but also the child,
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such as pre post natal
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um yoga
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staff.
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So the staff will be trained to support the patient before,
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during and after the pregnancy to ensure they aren't supported and
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able to have the best outcome for the patient in infants health
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with these components. And working with our partners.
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My organization would combine all efforts to help african american women
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in the Cleveland area feel heard
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and safe, will also combating
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the adverse birth outcomes.
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We will start within our own facility and then work to get placed
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into mainstream hospitals to reach a lot of
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larger audience.
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So some goals. A short term goal would be to reduce the african american,
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Maternal and infant mortality rate in
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Geauga County by 3% within
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the first five years of business.
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And a long term goal would be to continue to reduce cayuga County's
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maternal and infant mortality rate yearly spread across the state into hospitals.
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Um, working towards reducing the state's maternal and infant mortality rate.
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And then here are my sources.
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Thank you guys