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July 01, 2015
LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has released the Practices to Reduce Infant Mortality through Equity (PRIME): Guide for Public Health Professionals. This is an informational resource for transforming public health through equity education and action.
“Achieving health equity for all residents is a goal of public health work within Michigan and across the country,” said Sue Moran, deputy director for the Public Health Administration at MDHHS. “This guide provides valuable strategies for developing a training model and resources that promote the understanding of the root causes of health inequities, as well as methods for creating changes in policy going forward.”
Health disparities are the metric used to measure progress toward ensuring that all residents have a fair opportunity to reach their potential. In Michigan, black and white infants died at a rate of 13.1 and 5.7 respectively in 2013, and these gaps in infant mortality rates between whites and blacks and whites and American Indians have persisted for decades.
The PRIME guide includes methods used by the department since 2010 to create a public health training model. These methods include consideration of the overall goals and design of the training components used, a description of specific content and concepts covered, the processes used, a description of the evaluation tools, lessons learned, and copies of existing tools and resources about health equity.
Additionally, the primary focus of PRIME has been to assist practitioners in the maternal child health arena, however, this guide will be a valuable resource for state and local public health systems interested in addressing racial and ethnic inequities related to other health outcomes.
The PRIME initiative is led by the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health within the department and a steering team that includes internal partners from the Health Disparities Reduction and Minority Health Section and the Lifecourse Epidemiology and Genomics Division of MDHHS. External partners that assisted with the development of this guide include the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Vanderbilt University, Michigan Public Health Institute, Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Ingham County Health Department, and Wayne County Department of Public Health.
To view the full report and accompanying documents, visit www.michigan.gov/dchprime. The PRIME initiative and publications were supported through a grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
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