Over the past several months, data has shown rising mortality rates among a surprising population - middle-age, largely rural white people. But many who study public health say focusing solely on that data ignores the historic disparities in other areas, such as the extraordinarily high maternal mortality rate among African-American women.
That particular area is of interest to journalist Rita Henley Jensen. Jensen is the founder of The Jane Crow Project, which is exploring the causes for poor health outcomes among African American women. Before working on this issue, Jensen founded Women's eNews, an organization that covers women's issues. In 2009, the organization received a grant from the Kellogg Foundation to investigate the underlying causes of the high African American maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States.
[For more of this story, written by Audrey Nowakowski, go to http://wuwm.com/post/researche...ality-rates#stream/0]
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