Women who receive prenatal health care generally benefit from fewer medical complications during pregnancy, and their babies also tend to experience a lower risk of health problems during infancy and long-term benefits throughout their growth and development. RAND research related to prenatal health care includes studies on infant mortality, low birth weight, prenatal substance use, and prenatal care and nutrition for low-income women.
Research conducted by: RAND Health; RAND Labor and Population; RAND Drug Policy Research Center; RAND Child Policy
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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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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 policy debate over prenatal substance exposure (PSE) is highly contentious and polarized.
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Determine the influence of a state's legal environment and a hospital's Prenatal Substance Exposure (PSE) protocol on physicians' propensity to respond when prenatal substance exposure is suspected.
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Only half of coded protocols included an implementation date; 37% lacked any goal or statement of purpose.
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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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This volume focuses on indicators for care of children and adolescents.
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This study uses natality data from 1983 to 1996 to examine the relationship between a state's eligibility threshold for Medicaid and birth rates among various groups.
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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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In 1996, California proposed regulations to eliminate publicly funded prenatal care for undocumented immigrants.
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In combating crime in America, little attention has been paid to keeping children from becoming criminals. What benefit might be realized from such an approach, and at what cost?
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This report finds that prenatal care in Jamaica, while generally available, provides care to many women who are at particular risk because of parity, age and poverty.
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Family and community membership are very important determinants of the use of health care, even in the presence of controls for a large number of observed characteristics of individuals, families, and communities.
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In Los Angeles County in the late 1980s, demand for public-sector prenatal and delivery services far exceeded supply. The authors evaluate the effectiveness of the Prenatal and OB Access Project, the intervention designed to address this problem.