Worksite Champion Case Study

Taylor, Y. J., & Nies, M. A. (2012, June 23). Measuring the impact and outcomes of maternal child health federal programs. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 17(5), 886-896.

The first problem that needs to be addressed is simply the lack of access for women in vulnerable populations to prenatal care. This is a major problem because we see that the rate of women who

Major disparities continue to exist in spite of America’s “Affordable Care Act”, Although minorities suffer disease five times greater than the rest of the nation, minorities represent the majority of the disparity. Infant Mortality has always been America’s indicator as to the state of the countries health status. America is one of the wealthiest and most powerful nations in the world, However, America ranks number 24th in the world for infant mortality. Puerto Rican and Indian women rank highest among ethnic classes with low infant mortality rates. Some researchers have found lack of prenatal access as the key contributing factor to low mortality and birth weights among these two ethnic classes.

By collecting date resources from official and do the analysis, they find that “this population is also less likely than the native-born population to have access to a regular health care provider due in part to the high cost of such care and partly due to the lack of continuous coverage.” (Brown 991). There is a common situation among them that they are not covered by Medicaid or private insurance. Lack of health insurance reinforce Mexican women to deserve reasonable pre-pregnancy check. In Betancourt’s study, the table 5 also shows that seventy-six percent of Latino women have experienced the barrier of cost.

Virginia Garcia’s mission statement to help those in need with an emphasis on being culturally competent aligns strongly with my goals to be a pharmacist. Growing up in East Los Angeles I came to know how much help my family needed as well as the community there. East Los Angeles is known for its world-class boxers as well as a lot of lower-income individuals primarily immigrants. When my mom, an immigrant, was pregnant with me she had to go to several clinics for help because we did not have health insurance but the quality of those clinics were not the highest. Virginia Garcia’s missions aims to curb this kind of care and focuses on individuals like my mom of low socioeconomic status and more importantly strives to provide high quality care.

Debra Jones explained her connection to the March of Dimes as a perinatal specialist at the Perinatal and Gynecologic Specialists of the Palm Beaches, Inc. and the benefits of the March of Dimes research to improve the health of mothers and babies and providing recourses to the medical community and community in general to insure healthy pregnancy and delivery. She explained about March of Dimes Board of Directors mission to be at the Frontline to decrease prematurity in Florida. She noted that Florida graded “D” in 2015 with the rate of prematurity of 13.6% while across the nation the rate of prematurity is 11.4%, and highlighted that the goal of the March of Dimes is to decrease the prematurity rate to 9.6% across the nation for 2020. She

Also, for reasons that are still being investigated in public health, poorer pregnant women are much more likely to be diagnosed with labor-inducing bacterial infections such as bacterial vaginosis or chorioamnionitis (inflammation of the fetal membrane) (Allsworth & Peipert, 2007; Dammann, Leviton, & Allred, 2000). In a study sample of over 3,700 women who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the prevalence of bacterial vaginosis was higher in pregnant women who were living at (34%) or below (37%) the federal poverty level compared to those who were living above it (24%) (Allsworth & Peipert, 2007). Additionally, pregnant women in lower SES communities have been found to suffer from more chronic healthcare care conditions such as hypertension and diabetes which are highly associated with preterm birth and small gestational size (Nagahawatte & Goldenberg,

Federal and state legislations can deny undocumented individuals access to public benefits such as healthcare services, public assistance programs, and public housing. Policy research details how approximately fifty-one percent of undocumented individuals in California are uninsured and are excluded from private insurance plans that would allow them to access valuable health services (Wallace, Torres, Nobari, & Pourat, 2010). Undocumented women are disproportionally affected in accessing services related to reproductive health care as well as prenatal care, which can negatively impact their health. In her research, Marrows (2012) describes how uninsured rates remain high among undocumented individuals even in sanctuary cities such as San Francisco that practice “right-to-care” strategies, aiming to produce inclusivity, and that create public funds for immigrants. This is primarily due to a shortage of

Research by Korinek and Smith (2011) talks about how prenatal care for immigrant and racial-ethnic minority women can be affected by immigrant legal status. Despite the rise of undocumented immigrants in the US, research has been limited to them especially with direct identification of the undocumented immigrants (Korinek & Smith, 2011). According to Utah, where the context of the study takes place, 15% of births in 2006 were to foreign-born mothers compared to 5% in the 1980’s (Korinek & Smith, 2011). Addition to the 15% being foreign-born; over 15% were from Latinas and in the national comparison over one-fourth of births were from Latinas (Korinek & Smith, 2011). This increase in birth demographics suggests that health care to these ethnic minorities and their children are critical contributors to public health (Korinek & Smith, 2011). Enhancing access to prenatal care for immigrants has been shown to reduce aggregate

When I return to my New Mexican community as a midwife, I hope to influence practice through improving cultural competence in birth, improving health literacy in pregnancy/birth, and through increasing education and awareness of childbirth (natural childbirth, and other birthing options) and nutrition/exercise during pregnancy.

“Loving Support Makes Breastfeeding Work” is a campaign that was launched in 1997 by the Women, Infants, and children (WIC) to promote and increase breastfeeding. Loving Support Makes Breastfeeding Work is the United States department of Agriculture’s (USDA) national breastfeeding promoting and supporting camping. Through the WIC programs, they provide education, training, as well as outreach materials to promote and support breastfeeding.

Marsden, A., & Abayomi, J. (2012). Attitudes of employees working in public places toward breastfeeding. British Journal of Midwifery, 20(4), 271-277.

In order to accomplish the program’s specified mission, the HRPP/NICP developed goals which include: (1) early identification of women and children at risk of mortality and morbidity, (2) education for health professionals, families, and communities, (3) linkage of infant, toddlers, and pregnant women to risk appropriate services, and (4) establishment of standards of care (ADHS, 2009). As a result, the program has provided a safety net for Arizona families and a method for ensuring availability and accessibility of risk appropriate care to critically ill newborns and high-risk pregnant women, regardless of their ability to pay (ADHS,

Given the norm across the globe is that workplace comprises both men and women, the redresses of the concern of the group are critical for organizations to ascertain success. As noted, the need to adopt programs that encourage women to breastfeed at the workplace is becoming essential as an administrative requirement as well as a legal obligation. The practice is gaining attention because it affects the overall productivity of the employees as well as interrelated developments in the society (Cardenas, & Major, 2005). The adoption of lactation programs also improves the relationship between mother and child thus alleviating the stresses that might affect the performance of the individual at the workplace. The feeling of consideration by the management also improves the relationship between the mothers of the child and the fathers, which translates to overall progress in organizations having parenting employees. The physical health of the parents, as well as that of the child, also improves. However, the ascertainment of the balance in the formulation of a program is not an easy task. It is on this premise that the report recommends the steps for addressing the concern.

Women with children are the fastest-growing segmented of the workforce in the world today given the fact that most of them do not want to stall their careers to attend to family commitments such as giving birth to children. However, these breastfeeding mothers should learn to balance work and family to ensure that they attend to their young ones as well as perform their duties at work as expected. Statistics show that over 75 percent of all mothers begin breastfeeding and after returning to work after their babies are born, time and space to extract and express their milk during work time helps them to give their best to the job and their babies. This assignment will attempt to show the benefits that are likely to come with allowing breastfeeding