Prenatal Care in the United States, 1980-94 A recently released report from the National Center for Health Statistics, "Prenatal Care in the United States, 1980-94" examines trends in timing of prenatal care in the United States. Demographic characteristics examined include age, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, place of birth of mother, educational attainment of mother, and live-birth order. Social characteristics discussed include barriers to care and pregnancy wantedness. The results of the report infer that very few groups of women have yet to achieve the goal of 90 percent initiating prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy. In 1994, 80 percent of all mothers initiated care in the first trimester. One of the conclusions drawn from this study is that mothers who want to become pregnant also tend to seek help in understanding their pregnancy and its risks earlier than those who did not intend to get pregnant or cared to become pregnant at another time.
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