Prenatal Care and Subsequent Birth Intervals

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-21

  Teitler, Julien O ^a   Das, Dhiman ^b   Kruse, Lakota ^c   Reichman, Nancy E ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RISK; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; BIRTH INTERVALS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW JERSEY; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PRENATAL CARE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858158342     PISSN: 15386341     EISSN: 19312393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1363/4401312     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Data 2010: the Healthy People 2010 database, 2011, <>, accessed Jan. 20, 2011.
2. Conde-Agudelo A, Rosas-Bermúdez A and Kafury-Goeta AC, Birth spacing and risk of adverse perinatal outcomes: a meta-analysis, Journal of the American Medical Association, 2006, 295(15):1809-1823.
3. Reichman NE, Low birth weight and school readiness, Future of Children, 2005, 15(1):91-116.
4. Cheslack-Postava K, Liu K and Bearman PS, Closely spaced pregnancies are associated with increased odds of autism in California sibling births, Pediatrics, 2011, 127(2):246-253.
5. Kogan MD et al., The changing pattern of prenatal care utilization in the United States, 1981-1995, using different prenatal care indices, Journal of the American Medical Association, 1998, 279(20):1623-1628.
6. Schappert SM, Ambulatory care visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments, and emergency departments: United States, 1996, Vital and Health Statistics, 1998, Series 13, No. 134.
7. March of Dimes, Prenatal care, no date, <>, accessed Jan. 21, 2011.
8. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Caring for Our Future: The Content of Prenatal Care, Washington, DC: DHHS, 1989.
9. Martin JA et al., Births: final data for 2006, National Vital Statistics Reports, 2009, Vol. 57, No. 7.
10. March of Dimes, Prenatal care: distribution of prenatal care adequacy categories: US, 2002, no date, <>, accessed Jan. 7, 2011.
11. DHHS, Healthy People 2020 summary of objectives, no date, <>, accessed Dec. 22, 2011.
12. Reichman NE et al., Infant health production functions: What a difference the data make, Health Economics, 2009, 18(7):761-782.
13. Reichman NE and Teitler JO, Timing of enhanced prenatal care and birth outcomes in New Jersey's HealthStart program, Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2005, 9(2):151-158.
14. Kistin N et al., Breast-feeding rates among black urban low-income women: effect of prenatal education, Pediatrics, 1990, 86(5):741-746.
15. Reichman NE et al., Effects of prenatal care on maternal postpartum behaviors, Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8(2):171-197.
16. Hernandez LE et al., Is effective contraceptive use conceived prenatally in Florida? The association between prenatal contraceptive counseling and postpartum contraceptive use, Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2012 (forthcoming).
17. D'Angelo DV, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, personal communication, Mar. 9, 2009.
18. Cleland K et al., Family planning as a cost-saving preventive health service, New England Journal of Medicine, 2011, 364(18):e37.
19. Frost JJ, Finer LB and Tapales A, The impact of publicly funded family planning clinic services on unintended pregnancies and government cost savings, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2008, 19(3):778-796.
20. Halpern V et al., Strategies to improve adherence and acceptability of hormonal methods for contraception, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2011, Issue 4, No. CD004317.
21. Moos MK, Bartholomew NE and Lohr KN, Counseling in the clinical setting to prevent unintended pregnancy: an evidence-based research agenda, Contraception, 2003, 67(2):115-132.
22. VanLandingham M, Trussell J and Grummer-Strawn L, Contraceptive and health benefits of breastfeeding: a review of the recent evidence, International Family Planning Perspectives, 1991, 17(4):131-136.
23. Jejeebhoy SJ, Women's Education, Autonomy, and Reproductive Behaviour: Experience from Developing Countries, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
24. Moulton J, Formal and Nonformal Education and Empowered Behavior: A Review of the Research Literature, Washington, DC: Academy for Educational Development, 1997.
25. Freed GL et al., Influences on the receipt of well-child visits in the first two years of life, Pediatrics, 1999, 103(Suppl. 1):864-869.
26. Kogan MD et al., The association between adequacy of prenatal care utilization and subsequent pediatric care utilization in the United States, Pediatrics, 1998, 102(1):25-30.
27. Henshaw SK, Unintended pregnancy in the United States, Family Planning Perspectives, 1998, 30(1):24-29 & 46.
28. Denk CE and Kruse LK, Operational assessment of linked files: time for some standards? Paper presented at the Second International Symposium on Successive Pregnancy Outcomes: A Decade of Progress, New Brunswick, NJ, Aug. 19-20, 2005.
29. Alexander GR and Kotelchuck M, Quantifying the adequacy of prenatal care: a comparison of indices, Public Health Reports, 1996, 111(5):408-418.
30. House of Representatives, 102nd Congress, America's Changing Profile: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, May 26, 27; June 23, 24; July 28, 29; September 22, 1992, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994.
31. Finer LB, Guttmacher Institute, New York, personal communication, July 14, 2011.