Prenatal care : effectiveness and implementation / edited by Marie C. McCormick and Joanna E. Siegel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCormick, Marie C., editor.

Siegel, Joanna E., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prenatal care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 349 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book evaluates the effectiveness of prenatal care interventions and provides a framework for prenatal care that looks beyond the limited perspective of immediate neonatal outcomes. Ultimately, this book seeks to improve the content and the implementation of prenatal care by shifting the focus away from short-term technocentric medical advances to concentrate on the broader public health issues. A unique aspect of this book is its focus on the effectiveness of prenatal care interventions on longer-term benefits for women and children's health. Traditional medical interventions, as well as social support and behavioral interventions during prenatal care are reviewed. Effectiveness is considered within the context of its implications for public policy and service delivery. This book is an important resource for maternal and child health professionals, policy makers and health care managers because it provides evidence of the prenatal care services that improve the long-term health of women and children.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Prenatal care and complications of pregnancy. Effect of prenatal care upon medical conditions in pregnancy / Phillip G. Stubblefield

Health behaviors during pregnancy : risks and interventions / Lisa L. Paine, Lisa M. Garceau

pt. 2. Preventing prematurity. Causes of prematurity / David A. Savitz, Lisa M. Pastore

Interventions to prevent prematurity / Robert L. Goldenberg, Dwight J. Rouse

Long-term outcomes of prematurity / Marie C. McCormick

pt. 3. New findings and long-term evidence on intrauterine growth restriction. Causes of intrauterine growth restriction / Kathleen Maher Rasmussen

Impact of prenatal care on intrauterine growth restriction / Linda J. Heffner

Short- and long-term outcomes of intrauterine growth restriction / Kathleen G. Nelson

pt. 4. Preventing and treating birth defects. Prevalence and etiology of birth defects / Joan M. Stoler

Developing fetal diagnostic technologies / Richard C. Parad

Options following the diagnosis of a fetal anomaly / Mark I. Evans, Yuval Yaron, Ralph L. Kramer, Mark P. Johnson

pt. 5. Prenatal care as an integral component of women's health care. Opportunities for improving maternal and infant health through prenatal oral health care / James J. Crall

Family planning : need and opportunities / Lorraine V. Klerman

Maternal-fetal conflict is not a useful construct / Wendy Chavkin, Peter Bernstein

Linking prenatal care with women's health care / Paul H. Wise, Marisa Brett

A European perspective on prenatal care : an integrated system / Jacques Milliez

Epilogue. A commentary on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of prenatal care / Joanna E. Siegel, Marie C. McCormick.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical refences and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11833-6

1-280-16013-6

9786610160136

0-511-11811-2

1-139-14619-X

0-511-06019-X

0-511-06650-3

0-511-30372-6

0-511-54472-3

0-511-06863-8

OCLC:

57301258