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Reproductive Health:
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Maternal and Infant Health
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From Data to Action: CDC’s Public Health Surveillance for
Women, Infants and Children
This monograph provides a comprehensive description of CDC’s
many surveillance and data system activities related to the
health of women and children. Each chapter describes surveillance
for a public health topic in terms of seven factors: (1) public
health importance; (2) a brief history of the program;(3) CDC
surveillance systems; (4) general surveillance findings; 5)
methodologic and interpretive issues; (6) examples of uses of
the surveillance data; and (7) future issues regarding the measured
health event or surveillance system. The monograph focuses particularly
on information from the National Survey of Family Growth, the
National Hospital Discharge Survey, and the National Maternal
and Infant Health Survey, with brief references to other national
surveys. 400 pages; December 1994. |
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Healthy Newborn Manual
The Healthy Newborn Manual was developed for managers of
programs providing maternal and child health services in developing
nations. Information in the Manual will help managers design,
implement and evaluate interventions to improve the health of
newborns. December 2002. |
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Maternal and Child Health Journal special issue; Safe
Motherhood in the United States, December 2002, Volume 6, (4)
The journal outlines some of the major research, health
care practice, and policy issues pertaining to safe motherhood.
There are articles related to ectopic pregnancy, surveillance,
racial disparities, depression, diabetic pregnant women, and
maternal death. |
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Maternal and Child Health Journal special issue; The
Social Context of Pregnancy for African-American Women, June
2001, 5(2) 67–140
The journal outlines results of qualitative and quantitative
research to identify potential new risk factors for adverse
pregnancy outcomes. Knowledge of the social context of African-American
women's lives, in particular, along with improved understanding
of the etiology of preterm birth can generate new perspectives
for future research and new interventions to reduce racial and
ethnic disparities in preterm delivery. The abstracts from the
articles included in this special issue are posted. |
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Maternal and Child Health Journal: Violence and Reproductive
Health, June 2000 Vol. 4, No. 2, 2000
This special edition of the Maternal and Child Health Journal
grew out of a major conference, the National Conference on Violence
and Reproductive Health: Science, Prevention, and Action. Source:
Maternal and Child Health Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2000. |
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Safe Motherhood: Promoting Health for Women Before, During,
and After Pregnancy 2008, At A Glance
Safe motherhood begins before conception with proper nutrition
and a healthy lifestyle. It continues with appropriate prenatal
care, the prevention of complications when possible, and the
early and effective treatment of any complications that do occur. |
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Structure of Pregnancy-Related Mortality Surveillance in
the United States
Surveillance is an ongoing process of identifying pregnancy-related
deaths, reviewing the factors that led to those deaths, analyzing
and interpreting the information gathered, and acting on the
results so as to reduce such deaths in the future. |
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Addressing Violence Against Women, Results from a National
Survey of Title X Family Planning Providers
This document is the final report from a survey conducted
by CDC's Division of Reproductive Health on the extent to which
screening for violence occurs in Title X funded family planning
clinics in the United States. It presents findings from the
Family Planning Clinics and Intimate Partner Violence Study
(FPC/IPV), and provides background information to help clinic
staff interpret the data and determine how IPV can be
addressed in their setting |
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Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy. A Guide for Clinicians
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Strategies to Reduce Pregnancy-Related Deaths
This 2001 manual describes strategies for conducting pregnancy-related
or maternal mortality surveillance in the United States. This
surveillance is an on-going process of identifying pregnancy-related
deaths, reviewing the factors that led to those deaths, analyzing
and interpreting the information gathered, and acting on the
results to reduce future deaths. The manual addresses issues
and tasks that are important for health departments, clinicians,
vital statistics personnel, pregnancy-related mortality review
committees, legislators, and community groups, (approx. 214
pages.) |
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Assisted Reproductive Technology |
International Reports |
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Page last reviewed: 11/14/08
Page last modified: 11/14/08
Content source: Division
of Reproductive Health, National
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion |
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