A Review of Prenatal Home-Visiting Effectiveness for Improving Birth Outcomes.

This article reviewed 28 quantitative studies comparing outcomes for women who did and did not receive prenatal home visiting. More evidence suggests that prenatal home visiting may improve the use of prenatal care, whereas less evidence exists that it improves neonatal birth weight or gestational age.

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Year of publication:	2011-02-11
Authors:	Issel, L. Michele ; Forrestal, Sarah G. ; Slaughter, Jaime ; Wiencrot, Anna ; Handler, Arden
Institutions:	Mathematica Policy Research
Subject:	prenatal \| case management \| home visiting \| gestational age \| prenatal care utilization

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Extent:	text/html
Series:	Mathematica Policy Research Reports.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	I - Health, Education, and Welfare ; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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