CONGENITAL SYPHILIS AND SHARED CARE BETWEEN MATERNITY AND PRIMARY CARE

Interrelation of Preventive Care Benefits and Shared Costs under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), access to insurance and coverage of preventive care services has been expanded. By removing the barrier of shared costs for preventive care, it is expected that an increase in utilization of preventive care services will reduce the cost of chronic diseases. Early detection and treatment is anticipated to be less costly than treatment at ...

A programme for shared maternity and child care.

Congenital syphilis in a Nairobi maternity hospital.

OBJECTIVE To assess adverse pregnancy outcome associated with maternal syphilis and congenital syphilis rate based on FTA-ABS-19s-IgM. DESIGN Descriptive cross-sectional study. SETTING Pumwani Maternity Hospital (PMH), the largest maternity unit in Nairobi, Kenya. SUBJECTS Rapid Plasma Reagin reactive women and their live born infants. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Syphilis serology in pregnant...

Primary care physicians and urologists--partners in "shared care".

Congenital Syphilis

Two cases of congenital syphilis was presented and few aspect of the disease and its treatment was discussed.