141st APHA Annual Meeting

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MCH Program evaluation for pregnant women

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
Thi session will discuss the results from various initiatives in the US and Haiti targeting maternal health services, telephonic maternity support programs, and home visiting and the associated outcomes for mothers and their children.
Session Objectives: Evaluate impact of participation in a telephonic maternity support program on costs among pregnant women Evaluate the effects of a Medicaid home visiting program for mothers and infants Explain early findings from the Maternal and Infant Health Program home visiting program onchildrne's injury rates
Organizers:

12:30pm
Determinants of institutional delivery among women in rural Haiti
Marie Seraphin, MPH, Catherine Striley, PhD, MSW, MPE, Ismael Teta, PhD and Mohamed Ayoya, MD, PhD
12:50pm
1:10pm
Effects of a Medicaid home visiting perinatal program on maternal and child health: Who benefits the most?
Cristian Meghea, PhD, Lee Anne Roman, MSN, PhD and Jennifer Raffo, MA
1:30pm
Effects of a Medicaid home visiting perinatal program on infant injury
Cristian Meghea, PhD, Jennifer Raffo, MA and Lee Anne Roman, MSN, PhD

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

Organized by: Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by: Women's Caucus