Health care providers face many challenges when providing prenatal care. This article reports on a program called Prenatal Care: the Beginning of a Lifetime (PCBL), to implement standardized prenatal care in central North Carolina. The purpose of this pilot study was to determine if there were differences in patient outcomes between a control group and 3 groups (A, B, and C) of increasing level...

BACKGROUND Pregnant women in American Samoa have a high risk of complications due to overweight and obesity. Prenatal care can mitigate the risk, however many women do not seek adequate care during pregnancy. Low utilization of prenatal care may stem from low levels of satisfaction with services offered. Our objective was to identify predictors of prenatal care satisfaction in American Samoa. ...

CONTEXT In Mexico, family planning advice has been incorporated into the clinical guidelines for prenatal care. However, the relationship between women's receipt of family planning advice during prenatal care and subsequent contraceptive use has not been evaluated. METHODS Data were collected in 2003 and 2004 in 17 Mexican states from 2,238 urban low-income women postpartum. Participating wom...

BACKGROUND Little research into non-western women's prenatal care utilisation in industrialised western countries has taken generational differences into account. In this study we examined non-western women's prenatal care utilisation and its explanatory factors according to generational status. METHODS Data from 3300 women participating in a prospective cohort of primary midwifery care clien...

this is a field study, done with the purpose of detecting awareness rate of midwifery students about the prenatal, intrapartal, post partal care of women suffering from aids in the nursing and midwifery faculties in medical university science ministry of heath and medical teaching in tehran city (iran, 1993).   in this research multi stage random sampling method was used, and 124 of third and f...

INTRODUCTION The declining number of family physicians providing pregnancy care is of concern because they are an important source of pregnancy care in underserved communities. Innovative approaches might reinforce family physician participation in pregnancy care for the underserved. Since group prenatal visits have been shown to improve patient education, support, and satisfaction, we implemen...

The primary objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between the use of health care (use of prenatal care and hospital delivery) and child health (measured by child mortality) in India. I develop a framework where parents care about the health of their children but cannot directly affect child health by their actions. Instead they can, through their actions, affect health inputs. ...

In this issue of ecp, Evidence Matters focuses on obstetric care and how it might be done more efficiently. The goal of prenatal care is to ensure delivery of a healthy baby to a healthy mother. The standard regimen of care that most obstetric providers have been trained to use is intense—14 visits during a 40-week pregnancy and a myriad of screening tests. Many recommended aspects of prenatal ...