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Startribune:The Day Care Threat
Children had been dying in Minnesota child care at an alarming rate and state regulators and industry leaders had overlooked the problem until our reporting laid bare a series of safety failures that led to the spike in deaths. The reporters made dozens of public record requests and analyzed hundreds of cases to uncover wide problems in the state’s in-home daycare system. They almost all the deaths occurred at in-home daycares, which have more lax regulations than centers. The series also uncovered dozens of cases of sexual abuse, gun violence and negligence that harmed children in the state’s in-home daycare system. It revealed how Minnesota has some of the weakest training and supervision rules in the country for these in-home daycares. The reporters also discovered that critical safety records that would help parents identify problem providers were not accessible to the public. The response to the series was swift and sustained. State regulators implemented changes to improve infant safe sleep practices and they are planning legislation this session to shore up some of the safety problems. The series also highlighted how the lack of information about child care deaths is a national problem.
Tags: Child care; safety; daycare system; sexual abuse; gun violence; negligence
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Born to Die
Memphis has the highest infant death rate in the country among the 60 largest cities in the U.S. The investigation looked at this and focused on the people hardest hit and most intimately involved in the fight against infant mortality.
Tags: infant mortality; infant death rate; pregnancy; birth; health department; FOIA
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Infants at Risk
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Tags: The Detroit News found that black children in wealthy Detroit suburbs are far more likely to die before their first birthdays than white children in the same areas. According to health records; 19 out of 1; 000 black children will die before turning one year old; compared to 5 white children out of 1; 000. Health officials think one possible reason for the difference in death rates could be the stress that black mothers who live in predominantly white areas endure.
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Des Moines Register reports on the high rate of infant mortality in Des Moines and finds that half of the deaths occurred in just nine of the city's 52 census tracts, June 9 - 12, 1991.
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Boston Globe investigates the different factors in Boston's high infant mortality rate by looking at the racial and economic factors involved; finds the poor receive little assistance in prenatal care, and examines progams working to fight infant deaths, Sept. 9 - 14, 1990.
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Wall Street Journal looks at this nation's high infant mortality rate and mounting evidence that perhaps half of the deaths could be avoided if the mothers had access to prenatal care, Oct. 19, 1988.
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San Francisco Bay Guardian studies San Francisco Health Department statistics that show only a small gap between the infant death rates for blacks and whites; finds many errors in the way the figures were derived, March 4, 1987.
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A Death in the Family
Alabama Journal (Montgomery) reprints a Pulitzer Prize-winning series on infant mortality in Alabama; documents the causes (poverty, poor education, insufficient access to medical care, and a lack of transportation) and ramifications of the highest infant mortality rate of any state; notes the apparent apathy of state government.
Tags: Babies; infant deaths