Getting Off to a Good Start: World Health Day Program Focused on Improving Pregnancy Outcomes
May 31, 2001 | Program Result Report
Between 1993 and 1999, the American Association for World Health, Washington, organized three annual meetings.
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Nicotine-Replacement Therapy Needs More Study as an Aid to Helping Pregnant Smokers Quit
June 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine prepared a background paper on the risks and benefits of using nicotine replacement therapies and other smoking-cessation aids approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat pregnant smokers.
Videos Help Reduce Smoking by Pregnant Women
April 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
From 1996 to 1997, researchers at the Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Neb., developed an interactive multimedia video program designed to assist low-income pregnant and postpartum smoking women to quit smoking.
Quitters Wanted
January 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Education examined why Medicaid-insured pregnant smokers change or do not change their smoking behavior after entering obstetrical care.
Reducing Teenage Pregnancy
January 1, 2008 | Book
In addition to providing insights about reducing teenage pregnancy, this chapter traces the evolution of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's efforts over a 20-year period to address this potentially controversial issue.
National Scan Gives Tips on How to Run Effective Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs for Latinas
October 6, 2008 | Program Result Report
Hispanas Organized for Political Equality conducted a survey of 43 Latino teen pregnancy prevention programs across the country to understand better the most effective ways to reach Latinas, and the main challenges that these programs face.
Still a Paradox: Foreign-Born Mexican-Americans Have Healthier Babies Than Native-Born Hispanics
December 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison conducted a pilot study to identify and assess why immigrant mothers (primarily those from Mexico) living in the United States have better pregnancy outcomes than native-born Hispanic mothers.
More Condom Use Plus Less Sex Equals Decline in Teenage Pregnancy Rate
March 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Investigators analyzed data from two national surveys to examine teenage pregnancy rates from 1991 to 2001 in African-American and white teenagers and identify factors that influence these rates.
Doulas Try to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes for Addicted Women
January 29, 2002 | Program Result Report
The Northern New Jersey Maternal/Child Health Consortium collaborated with five northern New Jersey agencies to design and develop a project to improve pregnancy outcomes for drug-addicted women in Paterson, N.J.
An Overlooked Group in the Fight to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
October 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
East Side House, Inc., a social services agency in the Bronx, N.Y., replicated its Community-Based Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, developed in 1997 in collaboration with Planned Parenthood of New York City.