Prenatal Care:

Reaching Mothers, Reaching Infants

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Size: 264 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1988

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Committee to Study Outreach for Prenatal Care, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
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Prenatal care programs have proven effective in improving birth outcomes and preventing low birthweight. Yet over one-fourth of all pregnant women in the United States do not begin prenatal care in the first 3 months of pregnancy, and for some ...
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Front Matter	i-x
Summary	1-16	(skim)
Introduction	17-25	(skim)
1. Who Obtains Insufficient Prenatal Care?	26-53	(skim)
2. Barriers to the Use of Prenatal Care	54-87	(skim)
3. Women's Perceptions of Barriers to Care	88-114	(skim)
4. Improving the Use of Prenatal Care: Program Experience	115-134	(skim)
5. Conclusions and Recommendations	135-162	(skim)
Appendix A: Summaries of the 31 Programs Studied	163-209	(skim)
Appendix B: Prenatal Care Outreach: An International Perspective	210-228	(skim)
Appendix C: The Medical Malpractice Crisis and Poor Women	229-244	(skim)
Index	245-254	(skim)

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Prenatal care programs have proven effective in improving birth outcomes and preventing low birthweight. Yet over one-fourth of all pregnant women in the United States do not begin prenatal care in the first 3 months of pregnancy, and for some groups--such as black teenagers--participation in prenatal care is declining. To find out why, the authors studied 30 prenatal care programs and analyzed surveys of mothers who did not seek prenatal care. This new book reports their findings and offers specific recommendations for improving the nation's maternity system and increasing the use of prenatal care programs.

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