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Focus Magazine

Focus Magazine

July/August 2007 (35/4)

July/August 2007 Focus -Full Issues

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In This Issue...
1 Addressing the Crisis of Infant Mortality: An Examination of Race and Gender

1 African American Women and Breastfeeding

2 From the President’s Desk

3 Infant Mortality Rates: An Indication of Overall Well-Being

5 Relationality: A Response to Infant Mortality

7 Girls in the ‘Hood: Sexual Culture and Its Implications for Youth

9 The Effects of A Lifetime: The Impact of Racial Discrimination on Birth Outcomes, Q&A with Drs. James W. Collins, Jr. and Richard David

19 Reports of the Joint Center Health Policy Institute’s Infant Mortality Commission

20 Joint Center Updates

11 Health Report: Maternal Nutrition and Infant Mortality

13 Economic Report: The Tragic Loss of the Summer Jobs Program: Why it is Time to Reinstate!

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Did You Know?

In 2006, blacks made up 22 percent of the U.S. Army overall, but comprised only 12.3 percent of the officer corps and between seven and eight percent of the combat arms officers. The combat arms branches represent the principal pipeline to the Army's senior ranks. In 1990, blacks were 29.1 percent of the Army, but only 11 percent of the officer corps.

Source: Lt. Colonel Anthony D. Reyes, Strategic Options for Managing Diversity in the U.S. Army, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, June 2006