Straight Tea No Chaser Podcast
Welcome to the Straight Tea No Chaser Podcast - a space for contemporary conversations about health and wellness, professional life, social justice, and overall millenial-hood. Grab a cup of tea and join these sunny SoCal-based best friends as they tackle the tough topics your high school friends won't talk about. Expect our episodes to leave you feeling energized about today's most important issues and confident in your abilities to make your professional/romantic/wellness dreams a reality. Our goal of every episode is to bring awareness and perspective to the subjects that matter most, while amplifying Black female voices.This usual table-for-two is inviting you to pull up a chair (and a cup) to join our conversations on everything from environmental justice and health inequities to what Rege-Jean Page had for dinner last night.
Straight Tea No Chaser Podcast
Cradle to Grave: The U.S. Infant Mortality Crisis
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Anju and Paige
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Season 1
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Episode 8
In this episode we spill all the tea on the U.S. infant mortality crisis. In the U.S. the national infant mortality rate (as of 2018) is 5.7 deaths per 1,000 live births but Black babies in the U.S. die at a disproportionate rate and Black families experience an infant mortality rate of 10.8 deaths per 1,000 live births. Black babies are dying at a 2-3 times higher rate than babies of other racial ethnic groups from causes that are typically preventable. Join us as we define infant mortality and explore “the why” behind the crisis. And so we all don’t get too depressed, in this episode we also share what work is being done to reverse the disparities in Black birth outcomes.