5121.0 Innovative Programs and Models for Improving Pregnancy Outcomes

Wednesday, November 11, 2009: 10:30 AM
Oral
This session presents various models used to reduce adverse birth outcomes in vulnerable populations, including interventions based at the pre/interconceptional and postpartum periods. Models that will be presented will include an outreach strategy to reduce African-American infant mortality, a childbirth education curriculum designed specifically for HIV+ pregnant women, the effectiveness of community health workers in the staffing of a home visitation program, and the use of a patient navigator model to increase prenatal care utilization among a low-income population. Additionally, on a national scale, the interconceptional care components of Healthy Start grantees will be assessed through the lens of a learning collaborative model.
Session Objectives: At the end of this session, participants will be able to 1) Describe several innovative models for addressing pregnancy outcomes within high-risk populations in urban settings; 2) Discuss results/outcomes related to interventions described; and 3) Discuss the framework utilized to develop a learning collaborative addressing interconceptional care components among Healthy Start grantees nationwide.
Organizers:
Judith R. Katzburg, PhD, MPH, RN , Kee Chan, PhD and Tyan Parker Dominguez, PhD, MPH, MSW
Moderator:

10:45 AM
Community Health Workers Get it Done in Philadelphia?: Examining Prenatal Care Behaviors and Psychosocial Outcomes for Mothers Enrolled in a Home Visiting Program
Nicole A. Vaughn, PhD, Marjie Mogul, PhD, Ilisa Stalberg, MPH, Debbie Bilder, BS, Michelle Allen, BS and Tracey DeBlassis, BS
10:55 AM
Utilizing a patient navigator model to improve pregnancy outcomes among an urban minority population
Mark Ghaly, MD, MPH, Dana Edelman, MPH, CHES, Sindy Leon, Maura Georges, MPH, MSW, Peyton Mason-Marti, MPH and Patricia Paik
11:05 AM
Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies: Childbirth Classes for HIV-Positive Pregnant Women
Erika Aaron, CRNP, Deborah White, MSW, Mary Jacobs Gorrell, Shannon M. Criniti, MPH and Sonia Massey, MSW
11:15 AM
Effective strategies for interconception care: A learning collaborative model
Andrea Brand, MPH, MSW, Kay Johnson, MPH, EdM, Lisa J. LeRoy, PhD, MBA and Deborah K. Walker, EdD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Public Health Nursing, Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)