Difference Between Jaffee And Perloff

This article, written by Jaffee and Perloff, was about a study that focused on getting a better understanding of the infant health risk factors that have an effect on a focus group of Black and White women who were pregnant in New York City. They wanted to focus on all of the surrounding factors that lead to having a baby with a low birthweight including: Neighborhood, economic indicators, access to prenatal care and individual perinatal risk factors. The author believes that the numerous studies done already, including smoking, drug use, prenatal care use, number of previous births and a host of other demographic variables, have not been adequate to explain what the factors are that lead to this racial disparity.
One factor less studied is the inequality of living conditions between different racial groups. There is growing interest in the woman’s ecological environment and their effect on birth outcomes. As well as interest in the role that economic political and cultural factors play in the low birthweight gap. A low birthweight baby is defined as an infant born that weighs
Social workers can assist high-risk women of color by supporting policy initiatives aimed at improving health in high risk communities. Also, policies aims at reducing smoking and improving insurance coverage should also be supported because smoking accounts for 20-30% of all low birthweight births in the US. Social workers can emphasize the importance of conducting risk assessments, psychosocial interventions, and preconception care as means toward improving birth outcomes. Since health is intimately tied to social and environmental conditions, then it makes sense to focus a significant portion of intervention at the community and policy levels rather than at the individual