Healthy start program and feto-infant morbidity outcomes: Evaluation of program effectiveness

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-65

  Salihu, Hamisu M ^a   Mbah, Alfred K ^a   Jeffers, Delores ^a   Alio, Amina P ^a   Berry, Lo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthy Start; Low birth weight; NNT; Preterm; Program effectiveness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; MORBIDITY; NEGRO; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149102318     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-008-0400-y     Document Type: Article

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