References

  • United Health Foundation, (2020). America’s health rankings analysis of CDC wonder online database, Linked birth/infant death files, AmericasHealthRankings.org.
  • United Health Group and American Public Health Association. (2019). America’s health rankings 2019. https://assets.americashealthrankings.org/app/uploads/ahr_2019annualreport.pdf
  • David, R. & Collins, J., Jr (2007).  Disparities in infant mortality: what’s genetics got to do with it? American Journal of Public Health 97(7), 1191–1197. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2005.068387
  • https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/health-of-women-and-children/measure/maternal_ mortality_a/state/ALL
  • https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/maternalinfanthealth/pregnancy-relatedmortality.htm
  • Callaghan, W.M., Creanga, A.A., & Kuklina, E.V. (2012). Severe maternal morbidity among delivery and postpartum hospitalizations in the United States. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
  • Creanga, A.A., Bateman, B.T., Kuklina, E.V., & Callaghan, W.M. (2014). Racial and ethnic disparities in severe maternal morbidity: a multistate analysis, 2008-2010, American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 210 (5).
  • Geronimus, A. T., Hicken, M., Keene, D., & Bound, J. (2006). “Weathering” and age patterns of allostatic load scores among blacks and whites in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 96(5), 826–833. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2004.060749).
  • Holzman, C., Eyster, J., Kleyn, M., Messer, L.C., Kaufman, J.S., Laraia, B.A., O’Campo, P., Burke, J.G., Culhane, J., & Elo, I.T. (2011). Maternal weathering and risk of preterm delivery. American Journal of Public Health, 99(10), 1864–1871. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2008.151589)
  • • Stolp, H., & Fox, J. (2015). Increasing Receipt of Women’s Preventive Services. Journal of Women’s Health (2002), 24(11), 875–881. https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2015.5552)
  • Hogan, V. K., Culhane, J. F., Crews, K. J., Mwaria, C. B., Rowley, D. L., Levenstein, L., & Mullings, L. P. (2013). The impact of social disadvantage on preconception health, illness, and well-being: an intersectional analysis. American Journal of Health Promotion: AJHP, 27(3 Suppl), eS32–eS42. https://doi.org/10.4278/ajhp.120117-QUAL-43
  • https://www.americashealthrankings.org/learn/reports/2018-annual-report/findings-international-comparison
  • All data retrieved from New Jersey’s State Health Assessment Database unless otherwise noted.
  • Peck, M. G., Sappenfield, W. M., & Skala, J. (2010). Perinatal periods of risk: a community approach for using data to improve women and infants’ health. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 14(6), 864–874. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-010-0626-3
  • Nelson, D. B., Moniz, M. H., & Davis, M. M. (2018). Population-level factors associated with maternal mortality in the United States, 1997-2012. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 1007. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5935-2
  • Hogan, V.K. & Ferre, C.D. (2001). Foreword: The social context of pregnancy for African American women: Implications for the study and prevention of adverse perinatal outcomes. Maternal and Child Health Journal; New York Vol. 5, Iss. 2, 67-9.
  • New Jersey State Health Information Database
  • Williams, D. R., & Mohammed, S. A. (2013). Racism and Health I: Pathways and Scientific Evidence. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(8), 1152–1173. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764213487340
  • Hoffman, K. M., Trawalter, S., Axt, J. R., & Oliver, M. N. (2016). Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(16), 4296–4301. https://doi.org/10.1073/  pnas.1516047113
  • Clark, R., Anderson, N. B., Clark, V. R., & Williams, D. R. (1999). Racism as a stressor for African Americans. A biopsychosocial model. The American Psychologist, 54(10), 805–816. https://doi.org/10.1037//0003-066x.54.10.805
  • Henry JP, Liu J, Meehan WP. (1995). Psychosocial stress and experimental hypertension. In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, eds. Hypertension: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management. New York, NY: Raven Press; 1995:905–921.)
  • Kuzawa and Sweet 2009
  • Edwards, F., Esposito, M. H., & Lee, H. (2018). Risk of Police-Involved Death by Race/Ethnicity and Place, United States, 2012-2018. American Journal of Public Health, 108(9), 1241–1248. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304559
  • Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Smedley, B. D., Stith, A. Y., & Nelson, A. R. (Eds.). (2003). Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. National Academies Press (US).
  • Minderhout, D.J., & Frantz, A.T. (2008). The museum of Indian culture and Lenape identity. Museum Management and Curatorship, 23:2, 119-133, DOI: 10.1080/09647770802012011
  • https://www.nj.gov/health/news/2019/approved/20190924a.shtml
  • O’Campo, P., Burke, J. G., Culhane, J., Elo, I. T., Eyster, J., Holzman, C., Messer, L. C., Kaufman, J. S., & Laraia, B. A. (2008). Neighborhood deprivation and preterm birth among non-Hispanic Black and White women in eight geographic areas in the United States. American Journal of Epidemiology, 167(2), 155–163. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwm277
  • Greene, L.A. (1994). A history of Afro-Americans in New Jersey. Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, Vol. LVI, No. 1, pp.4-71. Copyright 1994 by the Rutgers University Libraries
  • • Diez-Roux, A.V., Javier Nieto, F.,Muntaner, C., Tyroler, H.A., Comstock, G.W., Shahar, E., Cooper, L.S., Watson, R.L., & Szklo, M. (1997). Neighborhood environments and coronary heart disease: A multilevel analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 146, Issue 1, Pages   48–63.
  • Ferris, J. M., & Hopkins, E. (2015). Place-Based Initiatives: Lessons from Five Decades of Experimentation and Experience. The Foundation Review, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.9707/1944-5660.1269
  • https://londonfunders.org.uk/sites/default/files/images/PlaceBasedFunding_briefingpaper_June2015.pdf
  • Inst for Voluntary Action Research. (2015). Place based Funding-a briefing paper. (web)
  • Weissbourd, R., Bodini, R., & He, M. (2009). Dynamic neighborhoods: New tools for community and economic development. Living Cities: The National Community Development Initiative. Chicago, IL: RW Ventures.
  • Tatian, P.A., Kingsley, G.T., Parilla, J., & Pendall, R. (2012). Building Successful Neighborhoods. Urban Institute. https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/25346/412557-Building-Successful-Neighborhoods.PDF