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Limited access to care and home healthcare.| Authors: | Patricia Temple, Melanie Lutenbacher, Josie Vitale | | Language: | Eng. | | Date: | 08-05-2008 | | Journal: | Clinical obstetrics and gynecology
(1532-5520)
| | Release: | Clin Obstet Gynecol. 2008 Jun;51(2):371-84 | |
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Access to perinatal healthcare services for women living in poverty is complicated by many barriers and directly affects rates of premature births, low birthweight infants, and maternal and infant deaths. Health and social services delivered in the home can help improve pregnancy outcomes. Home visiting programs need sustainable funding and support from physicians and other healthcare providers. Ongoing research is needed to develop, refine, and evaluate systems of care that integrate home visiting components and different service delivery models that address pregnancies complicated by various psychosocial and medical complications.
| | Copyright: | Clinical obstetrics and gynecology
Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. pat.temple@vanderbilt.edu | | Full text: | | | Terms: | Delivery of Health Care, Female, Health Services Accessibility, Home Care Services, House Calls, Humans, Infant Mortality, Infant, Newborn, Male, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Perinatal Care, Poverty, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications, Pregnancy Outcome | | |
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