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     <title>RAND Research Topic: Prenatal Health Care</title>
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   <title type="html">Survey Examines Rural Guatemalan Attitudes toward Childhood Illness and Pregnancy</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/labor/FLS/EGSF.html</id>
   <published>Sep 15, 2010</published>
   <updated>Sep 15, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">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.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Does WIC Work? The Effects of WIC on Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20041213.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2003</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2003</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Support for WIC, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, is based on the belief that WIC works.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/drafts/DRU3071.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2002</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2002</updated>
   <summary type="html">Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV</summary>
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   <title type="html">Reciprocal Obligations: Managing Policy Responses to Prenatal Substance Exposure</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030908.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2002</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2002</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;The policy debate over prenatal substance exposure (PSE) is highly contentious and polarized.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Effect of Legal and Hospital Policies on Physician Response to Prenatal Substance Exposure</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20030912.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2002</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2002</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Determine the influence of a state&apos;s legal environment and a hospital&apos;s Prenatal Substance Exposure (PSE) protocol on physicians&apos; propensity to respond when prenatal substance exposure is suspected.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">A Search for Guidance: Examining Prenatal Substance Exposure Protocols</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20020911.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2001</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2001</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Only half of coded protocols included an implementation date; 37% lacked any goal or statement of purpose.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Women&apos;s Health and Pregnancy Outcomes: Do Services Make a Difference?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20010072.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 2000</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 2000</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Quality of Care for Children and Adolescents: A Review of Selected Clinical Conditions and Quality Indicators</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1283.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 2000</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 2000</updated>
   <summary type="html">This volume focuses on indicators for care of children and adolescents.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Physician Response to Prenatal Substance Exposure</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP868.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1999</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1999</updated>
   <summary type="html">Physician Response to Prenatal Substance Exposure</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Effect of Medicaid Eligibility Expansions on Births</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20000320.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1999</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1999</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;This study uses natality data from 1983 to 1996 to examine the relationship between a state&apos;s eligibility threshold for Medicaid and birth rates among various groups.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Prenatal Cocaine Exposure: Scientific Considerations and Policy Implications</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20000020.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1999</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1999</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Communicable Disease Impact of Eliminating Publicly Funded Prenatal Care for Undocumented Immigrants</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19990309.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1998</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1998</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;In 1996, California proposed regulations to eliminate publicly funded prenatal care for undocumented immigrants.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Diverting Children from a Life of Crime: Measuring Costs and Benefits</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR699-1.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1998</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1998</updated>
   <summary type="html">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?</summary>
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   <title type="html">Preventing Very Low Birthweight Births: A Bundle of Savings</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB4514.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1997</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1997</updated>
   <summary type="html"></summary>
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   <title type="html">Influencing physician response to prenatal substance exposure through state legislation and work-place policies</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP669.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1997</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1997</updated>
   <summary type="html">Influencing physician response to prenatal substance exposure through state legislation and work-place policies</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Policy Implications of Better Structure and Process on Birth Outcomes in Jamaica</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19980009.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1997</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1997</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Prenatal and Delivery Care and Childhood Immunization in Guatemala: Do Family and Community Matter?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19960502.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1995</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1995</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Prenatal and Obstetric Care in Los Angeles County, 1990-1992</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/drafts/DRU1293.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1994</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1994</updated>
   <summary type="html">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.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Prenatal and Obstetric Care in Los Angeles County, 1990-1992</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/drafts/DRU964.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1994</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1994</updated>
   <summary type="html">Prenatal and Obstetric Care in Los Angeles County, 1990-1992</summary>
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   <title type="html">Quality Measures for Prenatal Care: A Comparison of Care in Six Health Care Plans</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP267.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1993</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1993</updated>
   <summary type="html"></summary>
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