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PBHL-E330 Final Paper & Presentation

   Maternal And Child Health in Marion County, Indiana

PBHL-E330, Evidence-Based Writing for Public Health, was a course I took during the spring of 2025. I felt that featuring this assignment was very important, given the subject matter as well as the overall research presented throughout both the paper and the presentation. This assignment required my partners and me to have a deep comprehension of the subject material to conduct our own research and appropriately present our findings. This presentation also showcases my ability to work in a team to produce a well-constructed and thoughout final product. Due to privacy reasons, the names of my team members have been redacted on this assignment. However, it is important to note that although we all had our own sections to focus on, we met multiple times as a group to go over the entire assignment for cohesiveness as well as we each went over each others sections and the assignment as a whole to ensure that everything was completed appropriately. During this time, we also had a general exchange of ideas and topics as well as research documents to help each other to complete our sections. In specific, my sections were Variables, Study Size, and Data Sources/Measurement, and these sections are broken up and bolded in the research paper below.

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Marion County Indiana faces many challenges on both a public health and overall health perspectives. In specific, Indiana in general has extremely high rates of both infant and maternal mortality when compared to other states, and Marion County is most definetly an area of interest due to the rates within the county. Compared to the state, Marion County has an 8.1 rate of highest stable infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births (Indiana Department of Health, 2024a). Socioeconomic status and race were found to be two variables of interest. Among black women, regardless of education, which is often viewed as a helping factor, the rate was “five times greater than their white women counterparts.” (Omowale, et al., 2024). In addition to these two factors, zip code was identified to be a key variable due to the overlapping factors affecting ones zip code and the impact of ones zip code on health outcomes throughout the lifespan. Zip code has long been shown to be a possible indicator of health risks and overall mortality for those residing in those communities. It has been found that zip code is a key variable in infant mortality as well, accounting for 20% of deaths (Adam, J.M., 2017).

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 Maternal And Child Health in Marion County, Indiana Final Paper
"Maternal and child health is the foundation for healthy Hoosiers in Marion County. The health of both the mother and the child is one of the state's most concerning health issues for a vulnerable population.  "
Maternal And Child Health in Marion County, Indiana Final Presentation
"The objective of this study is to evaluate prenatal care in people with lower socioeconomic status in maternal and child health in Marion County."
What I learned

This final project was very impactful to my undergraduate education as a Public Health major. I felt very strongly that it should be featured because of its overall impact. This course and subsequent final project gave me a glimpse into research in public health and academic writing in this capacity. I had to learn to present evidence-based reasearch to support a view point. I also had to learn to acknowledge gaps in data and allow the audience viewing the paper and project to come to their own conclusions using the other data provided. In addition, I also learned to work with a team to accomplish a clear goal in this capacity. For these reasons, it was incredibly important to showcase this work.

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