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The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated pre-existing racial healthcare disparities. In an attempt to lessen those disparities, the foundation partnered with the Public Health Madison and Dane County to promote community COVID-19 safety education, mask distribution, expanded testing and quality care and access for highly impacted communities, Stevenson said.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, communities of color experience higher rates of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Though Black residents make up only 6.4% of the state’s population, they account for a total of 11.8% of COVID-19 hospitalizations.
A cause for this disparity is the stress and tension Black individuals face in their daily lives due to societal inequities, which McGranahan said can impact their immune system through epigenetics.
ONLINE: National Wear Red Day
Feb 20, 2021 10:00 AM to
12:00 PM
Participants in a past Wear Red Day heart disease prevention and awareness event.
This annual event helping fight heart disease in women through awareness and fitness activities will celebrate its 10th anniversary virtually. Hosted by the Foundation for Black Women s Wellness, Wear Red Day features special guests including cardiologist Dr. Sandy Charles (Novant Health), the Rev. Veloris Brooks (Spirit & Truth Ministries, Milwaukee) and health coach Venus Washington (Venus Inspires), and is hosted by Foundation President Lisa Peyton-Caire. Register on Eventbrite for a link to the Zoom event, or find the livestream on Facebook; donations help support Wellness Center programming, which has continued in online form during the last year.
Senator, congresswoman offer 12 bills to improve maternal and child health outcomes. By Catherine Capellaro - Feb 10th, 2021 10:41 am //end headline wrapper ?>U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore.
Stating that Wisconsin’s Black maternal and infant mortality rates are “tragically high,” Sen.
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) joined forces with Rep.
Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) to address racial disparities in perinatal health care.
The Perinatal Workforce Act is one component of the aptly named Momnibus Act of 2021, which includes 12 bills designed to improve maternal and child health outcomes. The Perinatal Workforce Act is meant to increase the ranks of health care workers who can offer “culturally congruent” support to women during pregnancies and beyond.
This year, the Wisconsin Partnership Program will include six different public health initiatives in this year’s annual Community Impact Grant, the program announced in a press release. The initiatives, which target a variety of public health inequities, will each receive $1 million in funding over the course of five years.
Among those recipients was a joint initiative focusing on Black men’s mental health by the Rebalanced Life Wellness Association and the Urban League of Greater Madison.
RLWA founder Aaron Perry said the organization was born out of his own desire to inspire and advocate for those with diabetes after his own success combating the disease. In 2005, just 362 days after Perry’s doctor informed him his diabetes was out of control, he turned his health around and completed the Iron Man triathlon, becoming the first insulin dependent diabetic black man in the competition’s history to do so.