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Objective Analysis. Effective Solutions.

Poor birth and infant outcomes and pronounced racial disparities persist in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, despite robust maternal and child health and social service systems. The authors use predictive models of which interventions women are likely to participate in, develop a causal inference framework to estimate the effectiveness of those interventions, and reveal how that effectiveness varies for women with different risk and other factors.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Methods

• Chapter Three

  Intervention Types and the Evidence Base

• Chapter Four

  National, State, and Local Infant Mortality Prevention Efforts

• Chapter Five

  Inventory of Allegheny County Programs, Services, and Supports Related to Preventing Infant Mortality

• Chapter Six

  Allegheny County Birth Outcomes, Risk and Contextual Factors, and Intervention Participation

• Chapter Seven

  Understanding Participation in Select Programs, Services, and Supports in Allegheny County

• Chapter Eight

  Examining Effectiveness of Select Programs, Services, and Supports in Allegheny County

• Chapter Nine

  Examining Variation in Effectiveness for Select Allegheny County Programs, Services, and Supports

• Chapter Ten

  Recommendations and Next Steps