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Author : Diane Rowley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Racial Differences in Preterm Delivery written by Diane Rowley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030910159X
Total Pages : 791 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Preterm Birth written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-05-23 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing prevalence of preterm birth in the United States is a complex public health problem that requires multifaceted solutions. Preterm birth is a cluster of problems with a set of overlapping factors of influence. Its causes may include individual-level behavioral and psychosocial factors, sociodemographic and neighborhood characteristics, environmental exposure, medical conditions, infertility treatments, and biological factors. Many of these factors co-occur, particularly in those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged or who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups. While advances in perinatal and neonatal care have improved survival for preterm infants, those infants who do survive have a greater risk than infants born at term for developmental disabilities, health problems, and poor growth. The birth of a preterm infant can also bring considerable emotional and economic costs to families and have implications for public-sector services, such as health insurance, educational, and other social support systems. Preterm Birth assesses the problem with respect to both its causes and outcomes. This book addresses the need for research involving clinical, basic, behavioral, and social science disciplines. By defining and addressing the health and economic consequences of premature birth, this book will be of particular interest to health care professionals, public health officials, policy makers, professional associations and clinical, basic, behavioral, and social science researchers.
Author : Dana-Ain Davis
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479853577
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Reproductive Injustice written by Dana-Ain Davis and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth than low-income white women in the United States. Dána-Ain Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery. While poor and low-income black women are often the “mascots” of premature birth outcomes, this book focuses on professional black women, who are just as likely to give birth prematurely. Drawing on an impressive array of interviews with nearly fifty mothers, fathers, neonatologists, nurses, midwives, and reproductive justice advocates, Dána-Ain Davis argues that events leading up to an infant’s arrival in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and the parents’ experiences while they are in the NICU, reveal subtle but pernicious forms of racism that confound the perceived class dynamics that are frequently understood to be a central factor of premature birth. The book argues not only that medical racism persists and must be considered when examining adverse outcomes—as well as upsetting experiences for parents—but also that NICUs and life-saving technologies should not be the only strategies for improving the outcomes for black pregnant women and their babies. Davis makes the case for other avenues, such as community-based birthing projects, doulas, and midwives, that support women during pregnancy and labor are just as important and effective in avoiding premature births and mortality.
Author : Courtney S. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Not So Supportive? Black-white Differences in the Protective Effect of Social Support on Birthweight and Preterm Delivery written by Courtney S. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309166810
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Role of Environmental Hazards in Premature Birth written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-11-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year in the United States approximately 440,000 babies are born premature. These infants are at greater risk of death, and are more likely to suffer lifelong medical complications than full-term infants. Clinicians and researchers have made vast improvements in treating preterm birth; however, little success has been attained in understanding and preventing preterm birth. Understanding the complexity of interactions underlying preterm birth will be needed if further gains in outcomes are expected. The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine sponsored a workshop to understand the biological mechanism of normal labor and delivery, and how environmental influences, as broadly defined, can interact with the processes of normal pregnancy to result in preterm birth. This report is a summary of the main themes presented by the speakers and participants.
Author : Kate Elizabeth Pickett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Social Context, Race/ethnicity and Preterm Birth written by Kate Elizabeth Pickett and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Wagstaff
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821369342
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data written by Adam Wagstaff and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007-11-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have gaps in health outcomes between the poor and better off grown? Are they larger in one country than another? Are health sector subsidies more equally distributed in some countries than others? Are health care payments more progressive in one health care financing system than another? What are catastrophic payments and how can they be measured? How far do health care payments impoverish households? Answering questions such as these requires quantitative analysis. This in turn depends on a clear understanding of how to measure key variables in the analysis, such as health outcomes, health expenditures, need, and living standards. It also requires set quantitative methods for measuring inequality and inequity, progressivity, catastrophic expenditures, poverty impact, and so on. This book provides an overview of the key issues that arise in the measurement of health variables and living standards, outlines and explains essential tools and methods for distributional analysis, and, using worked examples, shows how these tools and methods can be applied in the health sector. The book seeks to provide the reader with both a solid grasp of the principles underpinning distributional analysis, while at the same time offering hands-on guidance on how to move from principles to practice.
Author : Janet M. Bronstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319327151
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Preterm Birth in the United States written by Janet M. Bronstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-of-its-kind volume addresses the myriad of issues relating to—and reviews the plethora of responses to--premature births in the United States, both in national context and compared with other countries. In addition to current clinical data, it examines how preterm births in the U.S. fit in with larger social concerns regarding poverty, racial disparities, reproductive rights, gender expectations, and the business of health care. Comparisons with preterm birth phenomena in Canada, the U.K., and other Western European countries illustrate cultural narratives about motherhood, women’s status, differences across social welfare and abortion policies , and across health care financing and delivery sytems, and how these may affect outcomes for newborns. The book sorts out these intersecting complexities through the following critical lenses: · Clinical: causes, treatments, and outcomes of preterm birth · Population: the distribution of preterm births · Cultural: how we understand preterm birth · Health care: delivering care for high-risk pregnant women and preterm infants · Ethical: moral decision-making about preterm births Preterm Birth in the United States synthesizes a wide knowledge base for maternal and child health professionals across diverse disciplines, including public health, social work, nursing, medicine, and health policy. Social scientists with interests in reproduction and gender issues will gain access to historical, clinical and epidemiological knowledge that can support their work. There is also an audience for the book among childbirth activists such as supporters of midwifery and less medicalized childbirth.
Author : Alice David
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Socioeconomic Movement Between Successive Deliveries written by Alice David and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BACKGROUND: Numerous studies have shown that women who live in more deprived neighborhoods are at higher risk of preterm delivery than those in wealthier neighborhoods, even after controlling for individual socioeconomic status. Since socioeconomic status and personal characteristics affect the choice of neighborhood of residence, these studies are likely to be confounded by unmeasured differences between the woman living in the better and worse neighborhoods. This dissertation has attempted to examine the effect of neighborhood socioeconomic status (NSES) using a better study design by following up women who moved between successive deliveries. METHODS: All newborns to the same mother in the Electronic Birth Certificate database were linked to create a longitudinal dataset. Neighborhood information was obtained from Census 2000 to calculate a neighborhood deprivation score. Quintiles of this score formed the socioeconomic neighborhood strata, the highest score being most deprived. Lowest three quintiles were combined to form one neighborhood stratum the other two quintile formed two more strata. Logistic regression was used to estimate the change in risk of preterm delivery associated with change in NSES for women who moved between successive pregnancies. Stratified Analysis by race/ethnicity was also done. RESULTS: Moving to a worse socioeconomic neighborhood increased the risk of preterm delivery but moving to a better neighborhood did not reduce the risk, when comparing women who moved to better or worse neighborhood to those who remained in the same neighborhood. On stratifying by race/ethnicity this was observed for Non-Hispanic (NH) Blacks only. However, when comparing a woman after she relocated to her outcome before relocating, the change of neighborhood made no difference. On stratifying by race/ ethnicity, NH Blacks alone had an increase in risk of preterm delivery for those who moved to a worse neighborhood. Similarly teenagers who moved to worse neighborhoods were also at increased risk of preterm delivery. CONCLUSION: Neighborhood effect on preterm delivery is very small in this cohort. Improvements in the externalities of neighborhood environments would be unlikely to have a short term effect on preterm birth rates. Nevertheless there is a suggestion in this data that at-risk women may do worse in deprived neighborhoods than they would do in more favorable circumstances.
Author : American Public Health Association. Task Force on Correctional Health Care Standards
Publisher : American Public Health Association
ISBN 13 : 9780875530291
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Standards for Health Services in Correctional Institutions written by American Public Health Association. Task Force on Correctional Health Care Standards and published by American Public Health Association. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited, much-anticipated third edition of Standards for Health Services in Correctional Institutions is now available. The third edition of this book defines the scope of services that are necessary to provide adequate care, basing these standards upon principles of public health and constitutional standards developed through litigation. Previous editions of this book have been extraordinarily influential in this field. The book has been cited as the standard for jail and prison health services in state and federal court decisions. The new edition includes significant changes including expansion of both the mental health section and children and adolescents section. This important book contains rigorously prepared community standards, reflecting a health environment to which any community, but particularly a jail or prison community, is entitled. It sets standards of health care that are respectful of prisoner patients and require prison and jail based health care workers to view themselves as independent health care workers first and foremost. The new edition of this book is easy to use and has the most comprehensive and inclusive set of standards for health services in correctional institutions. It is an essential reference for anyone working or teaching in any capacity in the field of corrections.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309669820
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Birth Settings in America written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.
Author : Nanny L. Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Stress, Self-esteem and Racism as Factors Associated with Low Birth Weight and Preterm Delivery in African-American Childbearing Women written by Nanny L. Green and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cheryl A. Blackmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Racial Differences in the Risk of Idiopathic Preterm Labor and Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes in Central North Carolina written by Cheryl A. Blackmore and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Jacqueline Kleyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Perceived and Objective Neighborhood Conditions written by Mary Jacqueline Kleyn and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ana Berlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Racial Disparities in Preterm Birth Rates written by Ana Berlin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309493382
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Vibrant and Healthy Kids written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-12-27 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are the foundation of the United States, and supporting them is a key component of building a successful future. However, millions of children face health inequities that compromise their development, well-being, and long-term outcomes, despite substantial scientific evidence about how those adversities contribute to poor health. Advancements in neurobiological and socio-behavioral science show that critical biological systems develop in the prenatal through early childhood periods, and neurobiological development is extremely responsive to environmental influences during these stages. Consequently, social, economic, cultural, and environmental factors significantly affect a child's health ecosystem and ability to thrive throughout adulthood. Vibrant and Healthy Kids: Aligning Science, Practice, and Policy to Advance Health Equity builds upon and updates research from Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity (2017) and From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development (2000). This report provides a brief overview of stressors that affect childhood development and health, a framework for applying current brain and development science to the real world, a roadmap for implementing tailored interventions, and recommendations about improving systems to better align with our understanding of the significant impact of health equity.
Author : Christine Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Racial Disparities in Adverse Birth Outcomes written by Christine Ray and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this graduate project is to raise awareness regarding racial disparities in adverse birth outcomes in the United States, and determine if these discrepancies are replicated in selected pediatric hospitals nationwide. The hypothesis that there are racial differences in birth weight, risk of mortality, discharge mortality, and preterm delivery of patients in selected pediatric hospitals was confirmed utilizing the methodology of secondary analysis of Pediatric Health Information System Data. Chi-square analysis results indicate statistically significant racial differences in adverse birth outcomes. Therefore, racial differences in adverse birth outcomes are an urgent concern warranting additional research, policy changes, and advocacy.
