This paper presents the conceptual framework and implementation strategies of a
relationship-focused behavioral intervention for pregnant women and their families. The …

BACKGROUND: Healthy Steps (HS) for Young Children strengthens the healthcare system
as a source of developmental and behavioral support for parents. This series of papers …

Objectives: Managed care plans under Medicaid are becoming a usual source of care for
low-income pregnant women. This study describes an ancillary prenatal care service …

Pregnancy and the early years of the child's life offer an opportune time to prevent a host of
adverse maternal, child, and family outcomes that are important in their own right, but that …

BACKGROUND: Healthy Steps (HS) was designed to address, prospectively, behavioral
and developmental support needs of young families in pediatric clinical care settings …

Developmental preventive health care for children must begin with preconceptual services
and include prenatal, intrapartum and post partum follow-up in addition to child health …

Primary care providers who fail to provide preconceptional care to every woman of
reproductive age during each primary care visit are losing key preventive opportunities …

Objectives: The purpose of this class is to 1. promote awareness of individual responsibility
in pregnancy outcomes and infant mortality rates, 2. discuss the anticipated role changes …

Objective. To improve health outcomes of children, the US Maternal and Child Health
Bureau has recommended more effective organization of preventive services within primary …

Abstract Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Childbirth, Healthy Parenting (HPCP) is a blended
prenatal care model that integrates group visits with individual prenatal visits. While group …