Factors associated with inadequate prenatal care during the second pregnancies among African-American women

✍ Scribed by Jeanne M. McDermott; Carolyn Drews; Melissa Adams; Cynthia Berg; Holly A. Hill; Brian J. McCarthy

• Book ID: 104271505
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Weight: 955 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2182
• DOI: 10.1016/s0091-2182(96)00058-4

✦ Synopsis

care than women delivering their first birth (&8). Thestudies also found that women with a prior fetal 10;s (10.11). infant death, preterm delivery. or a low bitihweight infant (12) receive earlier and more prenatal care in their subsequent pregnancy. Further exploration of factors that influence the use of prenatal care services in sequential pregnancies has been hampe ed by the lack of longitudinally linked maternal data set?.

This stdy examined lk a&&kn o! p-en&l care use and sadacted complications cccuning at thr! fkst birth with ptenatalcareuseinthesecodpregnancyamongAhicarr American women. rising a longitudinally liti data set.

Data Source

Data for this analysis were obtained from a maternally longitudinally linked data set of vital registration data in Georgia. Details of the linking method and the evaluation