ArticleMaternal and child health journal2013
Effects of prenatal care on child health at age 5.
Article in Maternal and child health journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Physician Referrals During Prenatal Care.Maternal and child health journal · 2021Article
- Optimum maternal healthcare service utilization and infant mortality in Ethiopia.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Cardiovascular Risk Screening in Women with Pregnancy Complications: The Need for Integrative Strategies.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2021Article
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- Utilisation, equity and determinants of full antenatal care in India: analysis from the National Family Health Survey 4.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2019Article
- State-Level Immigrant Prenatal Health Care Policy and Inequities in Health Insurance Among Children in Mixed-Status Families.Global pediatric health · 2019Article
- Severity of ASD symptoms and their correlation with the presence of copy number variations and exposure to first trimester ultrasound.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2017Article
- Prenatal care and child growth and schooling in four low- and medium-income countries.PloS one · 2017Article
- Progress in the utilization of antenatal and delivery care services in Bangladesh: where does the equity gap lie?BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2016Article
- Maternal Health Care Services Access Index and Infant Survival in Nigeria.Ethiopian journal of health sciences · 2016Article
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Abstract
The broad goal of contemporary prenatal care is to promote the health of the mother, child, and family through the pregnancy, delivery, and the child's development. Although the vast majority of mothers giving birth in developed countries receive prenatal care, past research has not found compelling evidence that early or adequate prenatal care has favorable effects on birth outcomes. It is possible that prenatal care confers health benefits to the child that do not become apparent until after the perinatal period. Using data from a national urban birth cohort study in the US, we estimate the effects of prenatal care on four markers of child health at age 5-maternal-reported health status, asthma diagnosis, overweight, and height. Prenatal care, defined a number of different ways, does not appear to have any effect on the outcomes examined. The findings are robust and suggest that routine health care encounters during the prenatal period could potentially be used more effectively to enhance children's health trajectories. However, future research is needed to explore the effects of prenatal care on additional child health and developmental outcomes as well as the effects of preconceptional and maternal lifetime healthcare on child health.
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