A new study shows persisting infant mortality gaps in Ohio’s minority population that demand more than just health care intervention.
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Hispanic infant mortality rates are slightly higher than the state average as well, at 7.4 deaths per 1,000 births. Half of the “modifiable factors” the institute found in the 2023 report that would affect overall health were connected to “community conditions,” like education, employment, housing, and transportation.
Recommendations made in the study to intervene on non-health care related issues were work supports, employment benefits and leave policies, rental assistance, medical and public transportation supports.The institute used this report to look in on the HPIO made in 2017, and found that only 17% of the 127 recommendations made in that year’s report were implements.
Lawmakers could be incentivizing employers to provide child care, especially to low-wage workers, and could change Ohio law to utilize gas taxes and vehicle-fee revenue for transit systems, the study stated.
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