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Peer reviewedHeagarty, Margaret C. – Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1990
Addresses the causes for and implications of infant mortality. Besides the more immediate causes such as disease, nutrition, and lifestyle, there are the additional hurdles of government bureaucracy, lack of funds, and institutional attitudes that block access to prenatal care. Suggests structural solutions, including a consistent, individual,…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Change Strategies, Child Health, Crack
Folz, Claire M. – 1990
This report discusses the use of cocaine throughout history; the introduction of crack cocaine in the early 1980s; its use by pregnant women; and the resulting impact on their infants, including premature births, deformities, and impaired neurological functioning. Studies which show that the neurological impairments continue into at least early…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cocaine, Congenital Impairments, Crack
Download full textSchatz, Mona Struhsaker; Mallea, Evelyn – 1992
This module is part of a training program for foster parents and foster care workers offered at Colorado State University. The module examines the effects of maternal alcohol and crack use during the prenatal period on infants, and the transmission of AIDS to infants. The module's learning objectives address: (1) foster care concerns for medically…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior Problems, Cocaine, Crack
Hodgkinson, Harold L.; Outtz, Janice Hamilton – 1993
There is no national policy on assisting drug-using pregnant mothers nor on the children they produce. This paper looks at the issue of "crack-cocaine" and mothers who give birth to children after using drugs during pregnancy. It attempts to lay out what is known, and it puts forth "best guesses" regarding helping children born…
Descriptors: Child Health, Crack, Drug Addiction, Drug Education
Fahs, Mary Ellen; And Others – 1993
The Center for Comprehensive Health Practice in the East Harlem area of New York City operates an early intervention program called the Infant School to promote the healthy development of high-risk children from birth to 2 years of age, including those of mothers who had been users of cocaine and/or crack. The Infant School curriculum is designed…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Cocaine, Cognitive Development
Jones, Deb; Martinson, Sue Ann, Ed. – 1990
This handbook on preventing child abuse is intended to help families with young children, especially young children who have or are at risk for disabilities, and to help people working with such families. After an introductory section which presents basic definitions, the first chapter presents highlights of the Education of the Handicapped Act…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Alcohol Abuse, At Risk Persons, Child Abuse
