Trends and Progress in Reducing Teen Birth Rates and the Persisting Challenge of Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities.

Purpose: We examined progress made by the Milwaukee community toward achieving the Milwaukee Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative's aggressive 2008 goal of reducing the teen birth rate to 30 live births/1000 females aged 15-17 years by 2015. We further examined differential teen birth rates in disparate racial and ethnic groups.

Method: We analyzed teen birth count data from the Wisconsin Interactive Statistics on Health system and demographic data from the US Census Bureau.

"You learn to go last": perceptions of prenatal care experiences among African-American women with limited incomes.

African American infants die at higher rates and are at greater risk of adverse birth outcomes than White infants in Milwaukee. Though self-reported experiences of racism have been linked to adverse health outcomes, limited research exists on the impact of racism on women's prenatal care experiences. The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of racial discrimination during prenatal care from the perspectives of African American women in a low income Milwaukee neighborhood.

Geographic analysis of diagnosis of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in children: Eastern Wisconsin, USA.

Objective: To perform a novel geographic analysis of Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis in Midwest United States.

Method: Primary care children age 5-17 with ADHD diagnosis (N = 6833; 13.5%) were compared to those receiving well child care without ADHD diagnosis (N = 43,630) in a Wisconsin integrated medical system.