Poor preventive care achievement and program retention among low birth weight infant medicaid enrollees

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Shulman, Shanna ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Maternal health promotion; Medicaid; Preventive care; Program retention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAID; PRENATAL CARE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAID; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750948077     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-0489     Document Type: Article

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