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Improving Infant and Maternal Health in Rural Nigeria

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The BORN Study examines efforts to improve maternal and infant health in Nigeria, where more than 250,000 infants die each year. BORN findings could have wide-ranging impact on health in the region.

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Closing the Gap Between Supply and Demand for Nurse Practitioners Providing Sexual and Reproductive Health Services — Jul 6, 2012

Inadequate numbers of Nurse Practitioners (NPs) trained in Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and expanding health insurance coverage from health care reform will create a gap in NPs to meet SRH needs. Policy options that could help close this gap are examined.

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Prenatal, Perinatal, Early Life, and Sociodemographic Factors Underlying Racial Differences in the Likelihood of High Body Index in Early Childhood — Jan 1, 2012

Racial disparities in early childhood high BMI were largely explained by potentially modifiable risk and protective factors.

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Achieving Strong Teamwork Practices in Hospital Labor and Delivery Units — Oct 7, 2010

To learn how hospital labor and delivery units can achieve effective and sustainable teamwork practices and how much such practices affect staff experiences and patient outcomes, RAND researchers studied five units as they implemented improvements.

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Survey Examines Rural Guatemalan Attitudes toward Childhood Illness and Pregnancy — Sep 15, 2010

The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support, and health beliefs in this process.

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"Choice" and Place of Delivery: A Qualitative Study of Women in Remote and Rural Scotland — Feb 1, 2009

Explores women's perceptions of "choice" of place of delivery in remote and rural areas where different models of maternity services are available.

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Racial Differences in the Use of Epidural Analgesia for Labor — Jan 1, 2007

There is strong evidence that pain is undertreated in black and Hispanic patients.

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Getting Women to Hospital Is Not Enough: A Qualitative Study of Access to Emergency Obstetric Care in Bangladesh — Jun 1, 2006

Explores what happens to poor women in Bangladesh once they reached a hospital providing comprehensive emergency obstetric care (EmOC), and identifies viable support mechanisms.

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International Public Health Research Involving Interpreters: A Case Study from Bangladesh — Jan 1, 2005

A case-study approach was used to explore experiences of working with an interpreter in Bangladesh as part of a research project investigating women's experiences of emergency obstetric care.

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Does WIC Work? The Effects of WIC on Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes — Jan 1, 2004

Support for WIC, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, is based on the belief that WIC works.

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The Effect of Legal and Hospital Policies on Physician Response to Prenatal Substance Exposure — Sep 1, 2003

Results suggest a policy strategy focused first on enacting laws that would encourage a patient-centered approach, by developing and using hospital protocols to implement state policy, and then on educating physicians about the actual legal environment.

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Addressing Depression in Obstetrics/gynecology Practice — Jan 1, 2003

Efforts to improve the care of depression in primary care patients have largely ignored the potential of obstetrics/gynecology (OB/GYN) practices.

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Reciprocal Obligations: Managing Policy Responses to Prenatal Substance Exposure — Jan 1, 2003

The policy debate over prenatal substance exposure (PSE) is highly contentious and polarized.

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A Search for Guidance: Examining Prenatal Substance Exposure Protocols — Jan 1, 2002

Only half of coded protocols included an implementation date; 37% lacked any goal or statement of purpose.

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Women's Health and Pregnancy Outcomes: Do Services Make a Difference? — Jan 1, 2001

Provides an overview of the standardized measures that the Mental Health Care for Child Crime Victims Standards of Care Task Force thinks useful for assessing trauma in children and their families.

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Quality of Care for Children and Adolescents: A Review of Selected Clinical Conditions and Quality Indicators — Jan 1, 2000

This volume focuses on indicators for care of children and adolescents.

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Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Scientific Considerations and Policy Implications — Jan 1, 2000

This report presents an overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the effect of cocaine on the developing brain and offers policy considerations for addressing the issues that arise from cocaine use by pregnant women.

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The Effect of Medicaid Eligibility Expansions on Births — Jan 1, 2000

Uses natality data 1983-1996 to examine the relationship between a state's eligibility threshold for Medicaid and birth rates among various groups.

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The Active Management of Labor: Is It Worth the Cost? — Jan 1, 2000

Active management of labor shortens labor and reduces the rate of caesarian deliveries, without increasing adverse outcomes.

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Physician Response to Prenatal Substance Exposure — Jan 1, 2000

Physician Response to Prenatal Substance Exposure

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