1. Chair, Delaware Healthy Mother Infant Consortium
Raising Our Voices, Strengthening Our Communities: Advocating for Healthy Women, Men, Babies & Families
David A. Paul, MD
Chair, Delaware Healthy Mother Infant Consortium
4/9/19

2. Thank you! Planning Committee Susan Noyes Tiffany Chalk Mark Marosits
Mawuna Gardesey
Leah Woodall
April Lyons

3. Moving Forward Call to Action
Successes
Opportunities

4. Delaware Infant Mortality 2000-2017
Deaths/1000 live births
13% reduction in US IM during same period
29% reduction in black infant mortality
Number of infant deaths in ,
21.5% Reduction in Delaware Infant Mortality

5. Delaware Infant Mortality 2013-2017
2.7x
Deaths/1000 live births

6. Delaware Infant Mortality 2013-2017, By Race and County
Deaths/1000 live births *=
Delaware Vital Statistics

7. Successes Continued drop in infant mortality Statewide engagement
Delaware CAN
DPQC
Assure statewide quality
CDC Grant
Prevent obstetrical hemorrhage
Delaware participating in AIM
Use of LARCs 24% reduction in unintended pregnancies

8. Successes CoIIN Initiative-preconception health
Three year strategic plan
Well woman care
Maternal morbidity/mortality
SODH
Reducing preterm births
Healthy Women Healthy Babies 2.0
SODH RFP

9. Successes

10. Opportunities How do we achieve equity? Past approaches unsuccessful
Have we done enough?
New strategies needed
Advocate for change inside and outside the health care system

11. Call to Action What we heard today
Importance of well woman care
Listen/engage/advocate/partner
Moving towards courageous comfort
Inclusivity
Every woman every time
Increase rates of woman who receive one preventive visit per year
Three legged stool
Equity Transform health care delivery
Preconception and intergenerational focus on health and healthcare

12. Call to Action What have we learned today?
Need for individual and institutional solutions to achieve equity