Resources and Materials

WMed and Cradle Kalamazoo partners have created resources from what we have learned from our experience that can be accessed by all. WMed’s Population Research and Data Team encourages sharing our projects and findings. If you do use this material in your work, please give us credit by citing the documents and materials you use. Suggested citations are listed.

• Cradle Kalamazoo News and Events

Page last updated: July 18, 2019

• Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR)

  Kalamazoo County FIMR Executive Summary

  • Kothari, C. & Lenz, D. Kalamazoo County Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR). Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine; May 18, 2019.

  
  Summary of Kalamazoo County FIMR Recommendations 

  • Kothari, C. & Lenz, D. Kalamazoo County FIMR Recommendations. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine; May 18, 2019.

  
  Kalamazoo County FIMR Project Description

  • Kothari, C. & Lenz, D. Kalamazoo County Fetal Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) Project Description. Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine; August 7, 2019.
• Maternal-Infant Care Coordination Registry

  • Cradle Kalamazoo Care Coordination Registry

  Executive Summary of Care Coordination Module 

  • Kothari, C. Cradle Kalamazoo Care Coordination Registry (CCR). Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine; May 28, 2019.

  
  Registry Portals

  • Public Portal
  • Agency Portal
• Reports

  Catherine Kothari, PhD

  Differential Pathways to Infant Health, by Race and by Income

  • Report (Healthy Babies Healthy Start)

  
  Differential Survival: Do Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities Persist Beyond "Poor Birth Outcome"?

  • Report (Healthy Babies Healthy Start)

  
  Healthy Babies Healthy Start - Kitagawa Analysis: Partitioning Infant Mortality Risk

  • Report (Healthy Babies Healthy Start)

  
  Home Visitation and the Care Continuum

  • Report (Healthy Babies Healthy Start)

  
  Infant Mortality Trend Analysis, Kalamazoo County 2010-2015

  • Report (Healthy Babies Healthy Start, Updated 2016)

  
  Mothers' Reported Knowledge of, Practices, and Barriers to Engaging in Infant Safe Sleep

  • Report (Healthy Babies Healthy Start)

  
  Patient-Provider Communication in the Kalamazoo Mom's Health Experience Survey Study

  • Report (Healthy Babies Healthy Start)

  
  Patient and Provider Factors that Increase Disclosure of Psychosocial Problems 

  • Report (Healthy Babies Healthy Start)

  
  Perinatal Periods of Risk Analysis: Disentangling Race and Socioeconomic Status to Inform a Black Infant Mortality Community Action Initiative

  • Report (Healthy Babies Healthy Start)

  
  Postpartum Reproductive Health Choices Vary by Race

  • Report (Healthy Babies Healthy Start)

  
  Pregnancy, Crime and Infant Birth Outcomes

  • Report (Healthy Babies Healthy Start)

  
  The Relative Contribution of Race and SES at the Individual and Community Levels, to Birth Weight

  • Report (Healthy Babies Healthy Start)
• Publications

  Catherine Kothari, PhD

  The Interplay of Race, Socioeconomic Status and Neighborhood Upon Birth Outcomes 

  • Publication (SSM Population Health, 2016)

  
  Perinatal Periods of Risk Analysis: Disentangling Race and Socioeconomic Status to Inform a Black Infant Mortality Community Action Initiative 

  • Publication (Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2017)

  
  Amy Damashek, PhD

  Engagement in Home Visiting Services During the Transition from Pregnancy to Postpartum: A Prospective Mixed Methods Pilot Study

  • Publication (Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2019)  
• Presentations

  Laura Bauler, PhD

  Impact of Race on Post-Partum Birth Control Methods

  • Oral Presentation (WMed, 2018)
  • Poster Presentation (NAPCRG Annual Meeting, November 2018)

  
  STI Treatment and Timing Upon Pregnancy

  • Oral Presentation (WMed, 2017)

  
  Amy Damashek, PhD

  Safe Sleep Practices

  • Oral Presentation(WMed, April 2019)
  • Poster Presentation (SAVIR, September 2017) 

  
  Using Focus Groups

  • Poster Presentation (WMed, May 2017) 
  • Poster Presentation at APHA, November 2017)

  
  Amy Damashek, PhD, and Cheryl Dickson, MD, MPH

  Safe Sleep Practices

  • Oral Presentation (APHA, November 2018)

  
  Catherine Kothari, PhD

  Differential Pathways to Infant Health, by Race and by Income

  • Oral Presentation (NAPCRG  Annual Conference, 2018)

  
  Differential Survival: Do Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities Persist Beyond "Poor Birth Outcome"? 

  • Oral Presentation (WMed Research Day, 2019)

  
  The Interplay of Race, Socioeconomic Status and Neighborhood Upon Birth Outcomes 

  • Oral Presentation (APHA Annual Meeting & Expo, 2016)

  
  Mothers' Reported Knowledge of, Practices, and Barriers to Engaging in Infant Safe Sleep

  • Oral Presentation (WMed and SAVIR 2019) 

  
  Patient-Provider Communication in the Kalamazoo Mom's Health Experience Survey Study

  • Oral Presentation (WMed, 2019)

  
  Patient and Provider Factors that Increase Disclosure of Psychosocial Problems

  • Oral Presentation (WMed, 2019) 

  
  Perinatal Periods of Risk Analysis: Disentangling Race and Socioeconomic Status to Inform a Black Infant Mortality Community Action Initiative 

  • Oral Presentation (Healthy Start Convention, 2016)

  
  Postpartum Reproductive Health Choices Vary by Race

  • Poster Presentation (NAPCRG, 2018)

  
  Pregnancy, Crime and Infant Birth Outcomes 

  • Oral Presentation (WMed Research Day and NAPCRG, 2017)

  
  The Relationship Between Socioeconomic and Racial Factors, Both Individual and Community-Level, to Infant Birthweight

  • Oral Presentation (International Symposium in Medical Geography, 2013)

  
  Fernando Ospina, PhD Student, MA

  Health Equity Workshop Assessment

  •  Poster Presentation (May 2018)

   

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