Healthy People 2000 Progress Review for Maternal and Infant Health May 5, 1999

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Healthy People 2000Progress Review for Maternal
and Infant Health May 5, 1999

• Wendy Chavkin, MD, MPH

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Improving Maternal Health and Pregnancy Outcomes

• To meet these goals we must broaden our concern
  to the health of women

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Improving Pregnancy OutcomeIssues

• Short inter-pregnancy interval
• risk for future pregnancy and for womans health
• Pregnancy loss
• recurs without interconceptional maternal
  treatment
• LBW delivery
• marker for womans later health risk

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Preconceptional Care ? Ongoing Care for Women

• More than half of US pregnancies unplanned
• Follow-up maternal conditions
• Decrease blackwhite gap
• chronic conditions
• maternal mortality

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Pregnancy and Prenatal Care

• Time of high motivation
• Engage woman in care for herself as well as for
  her baby