Health Concerns
Pregnancy outcomes

Infant Mortality is an indicator of serious health problems within a community.

FOR HER is working with the Tarrant County Infant Mortality Network (TCIMN) to address the community health issues that lead to infant mortality through clinical care, education, and research. For HER co-sponsored the Infant Mortality Community Workshop on June 13, 2008 as a joint effort with the Texas Center for Health Disparities and TCIMN. For HER leadership met with TCIMN board members and city and county health department officials to discuss future collaboration.

In 2002, the number of babies who died before their first birthday increased in the United States for the first time in 40 years

In Texas, the infant mortality rate is seven out of 1,000—eight out of 1,000 in Tarrant County—with the greatest risk to African-American babies.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to lower these numbers to less than 5 out of 1,000 by 2010.