OBJECTIVE There is consistent evidence demonstrating that pet-keeping, particularly of dogs, is beneficial to human health. We explored relationships between maternal race and prenatal dog-keeping, accounting for measures of socioeconomic status that could affect the choice of owning a pet, in a demographically diverse, unselected birth cohort. DESIGN Self-reported data on mothers' race, soci...

Pregnancy and the periods preceding and following it provide an opportune time for managed care to intervene with women smokers. Women schedule regular prenatal visits with their obstetricians and, following birth, schedule routine well child care visits with paediatricians; this allows for a continuum of active yet brief intervention from preconceptual through the postnatal child raising years...

Individuals invest in their own health, but children rely on parents to act on their behalf especially in the case of prenatal health. In this article, we ask, Do parents in the United States who choose to give birth allocate resources differently in the prenatal health of their sons and daughters when the sex of the child is known in advance? We pay special attention to prenatal health behavio...

CAUSAL MODELING OF PRENATAL HEALTH BEHAVIORS BASED ON SOCIAL CAPITAL AND COGNITIVE ATTENTIONAL SYNDROME WITH THE MEDIATION MENTAL FATIGUE PERCEPTION IN PREGNANT WOMEN

This paper uses Demographic and Health Surveys data from 21 countries in sub-Saharan Africa to examine the use of maternal health services by teenagers. A comparison of maternal health care between teenagers and older women, based on bivariate analysis shows little variation in maternal health care by age. However, after controlling for the effect of background factors such as parity, premarita...

Latina mothers in the United States enjoy surprisingly favorable birth outcomes despite their social disadvantages. This "Latina paradox" is particularly evident among Mexican-born women. The social and cultural factors that contribute to this paradox are maintained by community networks--informal systems of prenatal care that are composed of family, friends, community members, and lay health w...

BACKGROUND Patient decision aids (PtDAs) help people make difficult, values-sensitive decisions. Prenatal screening for assessing the risk of genetic conditions in the fetus is one such decision and patient decision aids are rarely used in this clinical context. We sought to identify factors influencing pregnant women's use of a patient decision aid for deciding about prenatal screening for Dow...

Background: Studies have shown significantly lower risk of complications during labor following prenatal care, allowing early detection, promoting normal pregnancy and birth. In May 2013 Maccabi Health Services launched “prenatal personal care” a dual gynecologist and nurse follow up model. Our goals were to Preserve and promote physical and mental condition of pregnant women and conduct early ...

Prenatal class is a group learning facility about health for pregnant women in face-to-face format that aims to increase the knowledge and skills of regarding pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, newborn care includes lactation management post-delivery family planning. This community service women's postpartum Participants this activity were at Palembang Kenten Health Center. The target 20 women....

OBJECTIVE To evaluate how well physicians and other prenatal care providers educate women about early recognition of and appropriate response to the signs and symptoms of preterm labour (PTL). To assess use of antenatal steroids for babies born at less than 34 weeks' gestation. DESIGN Before-after study using a population-based approach. SETTING Health care providers' offices, hospitals, an...