Black Infant Health Program

As seen in one of California’s intervention programs, the Black Infant Health Program, a program which provided support to African American women through group trainings, which entailed stress reduction techniques, life skills development, and the building of social support enabled mitigation efforts to be focused and geared around the influencing factors that contributed to adverse pregnancy outcomes among the minority women within the community, thus reducing and preventing negative pregnancy outcomes in women of color. African American, American Indian, and Alaska Native women are up to three times more likely to die from adverse pregnancy related outcomes, a disparity that increases with age. In the United States, maternal mortality and adverse health outcomes persist within the minority community and as a result racial disparities in healthcare among pregnant women is a current preventable public health concern, therefore it is vital to understand the determinants of health that influences negative pregnancy related outcomes in minority women.