1. Infant Mortality
Memphis, TN
Ashley Eaves, Brittany Taylor,
Casey Kirby, Kayla Fletcher and Casey Sparks

2. Infant mortality:
Number of deaths for every
1,000 babies born

4. These babies will never make it
to their 1st birthday

5. In Memphis, TN
a baby dies every 43 hours

6. In 2006, Memphis and Shelby County ranked
1st with 13.8% per 1,000 births

7. Why is This?

8. #1 cause of infant mortality is
low birth weight

9. What contributes to low birth weight?
Age of mother
Teen
Pregnancy:
In 2006 43.3%
of births in
Shelby County
were born to
mothers
Ages 10-19

11. Another leading contributing factor of low
birth weight: race

12. 2006’s Infant Mortality in Memphis, TN
622 births born to white mothers
2,377 births born to African American mothers

13. NOW IS THE TIME
TO RAISE AWARNESS!!

14. “Invest In today for your rate
of return tomorrow”
Netasha Bowers, The Blues Project

15. RAISING COMMUNITY AWARENESS CAN
MAKE A CHANGE

16. Clinic for the cause

17. Campaigning for the Cause

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