March 10, 2016
DEPARTMENT INVESTS $1.4 MILLION IN FLORIDA HEALTHY BABIES INITIATIVE
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Tallahassee, Fla.—Today, the Florida Department of Health introduced $1.four million in funding for Florida’s Healthy Babies, a collaborative statewide initiative to positively affect social determinants and decrease racial disparity in little one mortality. This undertaking engages the branch’s sixty seven nearby fitness workplaces and numerous partners within every county to deal with disparities with evidence-primarily based interventions.
“Although we've the bottom little one mortality in our records, Florida has racial and ethnic disparities that we are running to cast off,” stated State Surgeon General and Secretary of Health Dr. John Armstrong. “This investment through Florida’s Healthy Babies will help us locate solutions that sell and protect the fitness of all infants in Florida.”
Florida’s Healthy Babies is an effort of the department’s Health Equity Program Council, which focuses on supporting all Floridians obtain fitness fairness, or the best level of fitness. Though Florida has skilled declining morbidity and mortality fees, disparities persist and the department is committed to attaining health fairness and doing away with those differences. The council is created from county health officials and leaders inside the country fitness office and works to help nearby efforts, screen rising studies and decide the way to enlarge first-rate practices statewide.
The Florida’s Healthy Babies Initiative provides all 67 counties with $10,000 to conduct an stronger statistics analysis on little one mortality (inclusive of an environmental experiment of present pertinent packages) and to host a community motion-making plans meeting to observe disparities in toddler deaths, the function of social determinants of fitness, and suggest nearby movement. In addition to the bottom funding, many counties will receive extra funding to help the subsequent activities:
- Baby Steps to Baby Friendly: 10 practices confirmed to beautify sanatorium maternity care to aid and sell unique breastfeeding.
- Protective Factors: evidence-primarily based curricula to decorate parental resilience, social connections, concrete assist in times of want, expertise of parenting and toddler improvement, and social and emotional competence of children that decreases the risk of baby maltreatment.
In total, 26 counties received funding to paintings with forty five hospitals statewide on Baby Steps to Baby Friendly and 29 counties obtained investment to paintings on protective factors.
Kim Streit, Vice President of Health Care Research and Information for the Florida Hospital Association said, “Investing in Florida’s Healthy Babies initiative is a exquisite way to growth moms’ get right of entry to to effective prenatal care. This application is also an important step towards improving health consequences for Florida’s infants.”
Chris Lolley, Executive Director for Prevent Child Abuse Florida said, “The assertion of recent investment for Florida’s Healthy Babies reflects great assist for kids in our state. This cash will allow us to consciousness on essential problems in order that our babies have the fine hazard for wholesome development and long-term success.”
Douglas Sessions, Jr., President and CEO, Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida stated, “All children deserve to get the high-quality start in life and flow on to satisfied, healthful childhoods. This funding for Florida’s Healthy Babies will assist us deal with our state’s maximum urgent little one fitness problems. The Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida appears ahead to taking part with Florida Department of Health in assist of this new endeavor.”
Counties operating on Baby Steps to Baby Friendly received $5,000 each and a further $10,000 for every clinic they're partnering with. Participating counties encompass:
- Bay
- Brevard
- Broward
- Charlotte
- Clay
- Collier
- Columbia
- Miami-Dade
- Duval
- Escambia
- Highlands
- Indian River
- Jackson
- Lake
- Lee
- Leon
- Nassau
- Okaloosa
- Pasco
- Pinellas
- Polk
- Putnam
- St. Johns
- Sarasota
- Volusia
- Walton
Counties running on defensive factors obtained $5,000 each and consist of:
- Bradford
- Clay
- DeSoto
- Dixie
- Flagler
- Franklin
- Gilchrist
- Glades
- Gulf
- Hamilton
- Hendry
- Hernando
- Leon
- Levy
- Marion
- Nassau
- Orange
- Osceola
- Palm Beach
- Putnam
- Saint Lucie
- Santa Rosa
- Sarasota
- Seminole
- Sumter
- Union
- Volusia
- Wakulla
- Walton
For extra records about Baby Steps to Baby Friendly go to: http://www.healthiestweightflorida.com/sports/infant-steps.html
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