Risk and protective factors for preterm birth among racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups in California

LL Jelliffe-Pawlowski, RJ Baer, S Oltman… - JAMA Network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Preterm birth (PTB)(gestational age< 37 weeks) is a major cause of infant
mortality and morbidity in the US and is marked by racial and ethnic and socioeconomic …

Improving Health in the Caribbean Region: Challenges and Opportunities

DR Williams, J Frater - Prospects and Challenges for Caribbean Societies …, 2024 - Springer
This chapter provides an extensive evaluation of the health status in the Caribbean region
prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. It meticulously examines critical health indicators, including …

Community health workers: Improving home visiting engagement of high-risk birthing people in segregated neighborhoods

X Yu, CI Meghea, JE Raffo, R Meng… - Journal of Public …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To examine whether race, ethnicity, and/or language-concordant community
health workers (CHWs) increased HV engagement for birthing people in segregated …

Neighborhood Deprivation and Severe Maternal Morbidity in a Medicaid Population

X Yu, JE Johnson, LA Roman, K Key, JMC White… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction Few studies have examined whether neighborhood deprivation is associated
with severe maternal morbidity (SMM) in already socioeconomically disadvantaged …

Neighborhood Racialized Economic Polarization, Home Visiting Coverage, and Adverse Birth Outcomes in a Medicaid-eligible Population

X Yu, LA Roman, JE Raffo, R Meng… - Women's Health …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Residential polarization shaped by racial segregation and concentrations of
wealth (hereafter neighborhood racialized economic polarization) results in both highly …

Increasing Home Visiting Enrollment through Enhanced Outreach

RT Jacob, MF Friedman, O Meeks - Social Service Review, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We explore whether enhanced outreach to a randomly selected subset of individuals
referred to Michigan's Maternal Infant Health Program (MIHP) can increase enrollment in the …

Effects of Prenatal Care on Birth Outcomes for Black Women in the United States: An Integrative Review

B Guerrero - 2024 - scholarworks.calstate.edu
Prenatal care is effective in reducing the incidence of adverse birth outcomes such as
preterm birth, low birthweight, and infant mortality through regular screening and monitoring …

Zeyan Liew, PhD, MPH Ole Raaschou-Nielsen, PhD

B Ritz - 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Error in Figure 2: In the Original Investigation “Temporal Trends in Neurodevelopmental
Outcomes to 2 Years After Extremely Preterm Birth,” 1 published in the October 2021 issue …

African Journal of Social Issues Journal/African Journal of Social Issues/Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024)/Articles Open Access

JC Mwita, JA Aomo - ajol.info
This study focuses on the Effects of multicultura counseling challenges facing the youths in
Kenya. The study was conducted in Kisii County with a target population of 300 youths who …