The work was undertaken by the Mother and Infant Research Unit as part of the Public
Health Research Consortium. The Public Health Research Consortium is funded by the …

This Special Issue highlights Healthy Start, one of the nation's earliest programs designed to
help reduce high rates of infant mortality in US communities. Healthy Start is a federally …

Objectives: We examine the scope and nature of the recommendations that emerged from
the Healthy Start Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) projects and explore their use to …

Early findings of the national evaluation of the£ 3billion Sure Start programme have found
no overall improvement in the target areas. The first published findings of the national …

Purpose Improving pregnancy outcomes for women and children is one of the nation's top
priorities. The Healthy Start (HS) program was created to address factors that contribute to …

Setting Implementation Research Priorities to Reduce Preterm Births and Stillbirths at the
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While attracting and retaining participants in intervention research is a cornerstone of high
quality study design, it is often also the stumbling block. Low recruitment and retention rates …

This paper presents early findings from the evaluation of Starting Well, an intensive home
visiting program aimed at improving the health of pre-school children in disadvantaged …

Traditionally researchers, funders or policy makers have decided the future research
agenda, rather than the service users or clinicians who deal with the consequences of the …

The preterm birth rate in the United States is 10%, with 8% being born between 36 and 32
weeks of gestation, and the remaining 2% born less than 31 weeks of gestation. The global …