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Grant helps county study black infant mortality
Source: Kenosha News Posted: Thursday, May 13, 2010Kenosha County will use a $200,000 state grant to develop an action plan to reduce the area’s rate of black infant mortality. County Executive Jim Kreuser and other officials announced the recent award at a news conference Wednesday. The funds are part of the state’s Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families, a $10 million initiative to address black infant mortality statewide. “Kenosha has seen a disproportionate number of infant deaths in the African-American community,” said Gwen Perry-Brye, chairwoman of the Black Health Coalition of Greater Kenosha and a nurse practitioner with the county Division of Health. Kenosha County’s rate of 18 deaths per 1,000 births in recent years is more than four times the rate for whites, Perry-Brye said.
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