Sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) is the leading cause of postneonatal infant mortality in the United States, with disproportionately high rates in Baltimore City and Baltimore County in Maryland. This Advocacy Case Study describes the collaboration between the City and County Child Fatality Review teams to decrease infant mortality. B'more for Healthy Babies, formed in 2009 by the Bureau of Maternal Child Health in Baltimore City with the goal of reducing infant mortality through policy change, service improvements, community mobilization, and behavior change has had a sustained effort to respond to SUID. Recognizing that infants born in Baltimore City often reside in Baltimore County (and vice versa), collaboration with Baltimore County has been essential to increasing B'more for Healthy Babies' scope, reach, and effectiveness. Public health messaging campaigns, creation, and dissemination of a "SLEEP SAFE" testimonial video, and Safe Sleep Summits have involved caregivers, healthcare providers, and community partners. Outcomes of this ongoing collaboration demonstrate a decrease in sleep-related infant mortality rates. Our findings also highlight the need for continued, real time monitoring of sleep-related infant mortality trends with a coordinated, multidisciplinary, and crossjurisdictional response. This initiative can serve as a model of cross-sector communication that can be replicated in other similar geographic locations to further reduce SUID.

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通过儿童死亡审查和外展合作减少婴儿意外猝死。


婴儿意外猝死 （SUID） 是美国新生儿后婴儿死亡的主要原因，马里兰州巴尔的摩市和巴尔的摩县的死亡率不成比例地高。本宣传案例研究描述了市县儿童死亡审查团队之间的合作，以降低婴儿死亡率。B'more for Healthy Babies 由巴尔的摩市妇幼健康局于 2009 年成立，其目标是通过政策改变、服务改进、社区动员和行为改变来降低婴儿死亡率，并一直在努力应对 SUID。认识到在巴尔的摩市出生的婴儿通常居住在巴尔的摩县（反之亦然），因此与巴尔的摩县的合作对于扩大 B'more for Healthy Babies 的范围、范围和有效性至关重要。公共卫生信息传递活动、创建和传播“SLEEP SAFE”推荐视频以及安全睡眠峰会都涉及护理人员、医疗保健提供者和社区合作伙伴。这项正在进行的合作的结果表明，与睡眠相关的婴儿死亡率有所降低。我们的研究结果还强调需要通过协调、多学科和跨辖区的应对措施来持续、实时监测与睡眠相关的婴儿死亡率趋势。该计划可以作为跨部门通信的模型，可以在其他类似的地理位置复制，以进一步减少 SUID。