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Covington, Deborah L.; Peoples-Sheps, Mary D.; Buescher, Paul A.; Bennett, Trude A.; Paul, Melanie V. – American Journal of Health Behavior, 1998
Evaluated the effectiveness of a prenatal-education program in increasing prenatal care utilization, improving maternal weight gain, and reducing low-birthweight births among adolescents. Data from weekly program reports and state vital statistics and health services information indicated that program participants were less likely to have…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Early Intervention, Early Parenthood
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Seitz, Victoria; Apfel, Nancy H. – Child Development, 1994
Reviewed the medical and school records of 230 adolescent mothers to determine the effects of an alternative public school for pregnant teenagers. Found that pregnant mothers who did not attend the school until later in their pregnancy were more likely to deliver a preterm, low-birthweight infant than were mothers who began attending earlier. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attendance, Birth Weight, Early Intervention
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Quinn, Gwendolyn P.; Albrecht, Terrance L.; Mahan, Charles; Bell-Ellison, Bethany A.; Akintobi, Tabia Henry; Reynolds, Beth; Jeffers, Delores – Qualitative Report, 2006
When it comes to issues related to low-income women seeking early, adequate, or continuous prenatal care, the public health and medical communities continue to tell women to take responsibility for their actions. Rarely are messages aimed at providers. To help physicians see how factors in their offices and clinics can affect service utilization,…
Descriptors: Prenatal Care, Qualitative Research, Females, Physicians
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. Board on Children and Families. – 1996
The complexity and constantly changing dimensions of national discussions about health care reform hold the risk that special problems of children and pregnant women will be overlooked. This monograph summarizes two workshops which discussed the important health policy issues presented by children and pregnant women that should be addressed by any…
Descriptors: Child Health, Children, Health Care Costs, Health Insurance
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Subcommittee on Human Resources. – 1998
These hearings transcripts recount testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives concerning early childhood development programs. Testimony addressed the questions of how public and private investments in early childhood programs contribute to successful outcomes for infants and mothers, and how these successes can be measured and replicated…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cost Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Government Role
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Hueston, William J.; Gilbert, Gregory E.; Davis, Lucy; Sturgill, Vanessa – Journal of Community Health, 2003
Assessed whether the timing of prenatal care related to low birth weight delivery, adjusting for sociodemographic and behavioral risk factors. Data on births to white and African American women showed no benefits for early initiation of prenatal care in reducing the risk of low birth weight.(SM)
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Blacks, Child Health, Early Intervention
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Ward, Linda; Howarth, Joyce; Rodgers, Jackie – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2002
This article describes two workshops that explained the use of prenatal testing and genetic information to inform choices in pregnancy to people with learning difficulties, explored the issues with them, and describe the contribution subsequently made by these people to a British national conference on this subject. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Abortions, Adults, Down Syndrome, Foreign Countries
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Al-Dabbous, Ibrahim A. Al-; And Others – Early Child Development and Care, 1995
Studied perinatal and neonatal morbidity and mortality of diabetic mothers and their offspring in Qatif, Saudi Arabia. Suggests diabetes mellitus in pregnancy may be a common problem in Saudi Arabia, as poor maternal diabetic control results in high perinatal morbidity and mortality. Results suggest that health education and improved coverage of…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Disease Control, Foreign Countries, Health Education
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Needell, Barbara; Barth, Richard P. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1998
A study compared 26,460 maltreated infants who entered foster care between 1989 and 1994 with a random sample of 68,401 other infants. Infants in care were more than twice as likely to have single parents and low birth weight, and twice as likely to have been born with a birth abnormality. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Congenital Impairments
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Hunfeld, J. A. M.; Wladimiroff, J. W.; Passchier, J. – Patient Education and Counseling, 1997
Women (N=46) with ultrasound-diagnosed lethal fetal anomaly in late pregnancy were studied. Psychological instability, general psychological distress, depression, and despair were measured over four years and related to normal versus "neurotic" personality dispositions. Findings are presented; the need for medical intervention, emotional support,…
Descriptors: Bereavement, Counseling, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Adjustment
Chase, Richard; Valorose, Jennifer – Wilder Research, 2009
Researchers in many fields agree. The physical, social, and economic health and well-being of adults and society as a whole are strongly influenced by the early experiences of children, when the foundation for effective cognitive and social skills and abilities are developed. Children who have developmental delays or disabilities require and often…
Descriptors: Birth, Neonates, Infants, Toddlers
Lewis-Idema, Deborah – 1992
This report, the 10th in a series of the National Governor's Association (NGA) project "Facilitating Improvement of State Programs for Pregnant Women and Children," describes ongoing efforts of facilitating development of provider participation in Medicaid. The objective of the project is to identify where participation problems result…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Child Health, Medical Care Evaluation, Medical Services
Schubert, Stacey; Cawthon, Laurie – 1995
This study compared some of the survey data collected by the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) to information from vital records and administrative records in the First Steps Database (FSDB) for a group of women who gave birth in 1993. PRAMS is an ongoing survey of Washington women who have given birth. The FSDB contains birth…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Birth Rate, Comparative Analysis, Databases
Barra, H. Gensini; And Others – Children of the Tropics, 1996
Recognizing the importance of health care during the perinatal period, the topic for this issue of "Children in the Tropics" is prenatal development; this issue is intended for health educators for use in educating their clients about prenatal development, health care during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the needs of the mother and…
Descriptors: Birth, Breastfeeding, Foreign Countries, Health Services
World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1993
Noting that a quarter of a million children in the developing world die each week and that millions more live with ill health and poor growth, this handbook presents practical, low-cost ways of protecting children's lives and health. It is directed to those people who are in the position to communicate this information to families, such as health…
Descriptors: Birth, Breastfeeding, Child Health, Developing Nations
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