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22 Maternal and Infant Health
22 Maternal and Infant Health
Pages 170-175
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In the first category, there is emphasis on adequate prenatal care and reducing risk factors in pregnant women; in the second category, there are reductions in the proportion of low-birth-weight babies and in infant mortality rates. Witnesses noted that adolescents, Blacks, and Hispanics should be targeted for intervention.
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.5 Prenatal care and other public education efforts should be used to alert pregnant women to preventable risk factors for low birth weight and poor pregnancy outcome. Risk factors cited in the testimony include smoking, alcohol use, drug abuse, sexually transmitted disease, poor nutrition, and psychosocial factors.
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Richard Schwarz of the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn proposes as a goal the development of an accurate antigen test to identify infants infected with the human immunodeficiency virus so that early intervention is possible.
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Marty witnesses say that increased funding of maternal and child health block grants and of the Women, Infants, and Children supplemental feeding program, as well as extension of Medicaid benefits to more women and infants, is critical to the effort to provide adequate prenatal care. Prenatal care is a cost-effective investment, they emphasize.
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Sociocultural barriers also keep pregnant women from using available services and require special outreach efforts to encourage women to take advantage of services. Edna Batiste describes how the Primary Care Network of the Detroit Department of Health is attempting to provide prenatal services to those who need them.
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New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986 TESTIFIERS CITED IN CHAPTER 22 003 Alden, John; American College of Nurse-Midwives 010 Auerbach, Kathleen; University of Chicago, Wyler Children's Hospital 016 Batiste, Edna; Detroit Department of Health 033 Bublitz, Deborah; University of Colorado Health Sciences Center 044 Corey, Maureen; March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation 046 Cunningham, Allan; Columbia University 049 Desmarais, Linda; International Lactation Consultant Association 060 Ernst, Eunice K M.; National Association of Childbearing Centers 074 Grigsby, Sharon; The Visiting Nurse Foundation 108 Ja'Tett, Michael; South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control 1S8 Mulford, Christine; International Lactation Consultant Association of Eastern Pennslvania 168 Orleans, Miriam; University of Colorado Health Sciences Center 199 Siefert9 Kristine; University of Michigan 215 Turnock, Bernard; Illinois Department of Public Health 244 Calonge, Ned; University of Colorado Health Sciences Center 268 Work, Rebecca; University of Alabama at Birmingham 279 Davidson, Ezra; King-Drew Medical Center (Los Angeles) 308 Smith, Peggy B.; Baylor College of Medicine 316 Rosenblatt, Roger; University of Washington 324 Hill, L
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