Prenatal Care in New York City, 1951

Baumgartner, Leona; Gold, Edwin M.; Jacobziner, H; Wallace, Helen M.; Weiner, Louis; Schmidt, William M.; Worcester, Jane

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“…This concept of the increased vulnerability and increased need of the lesser educated, low income pregnant woman has been amply documented elsewhere as well. For example, a study in New York City 11 . showed that approximately 20% of all women whose pregnancies terminated in live births had late or no prenatal care, and that the highest incidence of such inadequacy was found in the lower socioeconomic population groups — in those patients delivered on the general ward service of voluntary hospitals and in municipal hospitals.…”

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Unfinished Business in Maternal Health

Wallace¹

1965

Bulletin of the American College of Nurse-Midwifery

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Women and children of the United States are fortunate in that we have maternity and pediatric care as high in quality as exists anywhere in the world. In fact, the quality is higher f o r women and children here than for the majority of women and children of the world. However, the quality here is not the highest in the world. Furthermore, the highest quality care available to some women and children in the United States is not available to all in our country.So, while we have achieved a high level of care for some, the same degree of progress in quality of care has not occurred for all women in all segments of our population in all parts of our country. If we wish to hold our country and our services up as a model for the rest of the world to see and perhaps to learn from, we must analyze the areas where progress has occurred, and those areas where further intensive efforts and progress must be made. This paper will attempt to identify those aspects of or related to maternity care where we in the United States must concentrate. MORTALITYAt present, the greatest burden of deaths during the period of growth is fetal death occurring shortly after conception. The next largest group of deaths is the perinatal groupthose grouped shortly before and immediately after the event of birth. These two groups, plus the third group of maternal deaths, accounts for more deaths than are registered during the next sixty years of the human Iife span. Thus, mortality associated with pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the neonatal period still constitutes a major health problem in our country.-66 -

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Section: Prenatal Carementioning

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Unfinished Business in Maternal Health

Wallace¹

1965

Bulletin of the American College of Nurse-Midwifery

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“…From the information contained in these medical reports some of the earliest community-wide studies of infant mortality by weight at birth, of the extent and influence of operative interventions, of complications of pregnancy, and of the extent of prenatal care have come out of New York City's Health Department. (10)(11)(12)(13)(14) T o have a convenient method of measuring the effects of some of these factors on infant mortality. New York City developed the system of combining the data on infant deaths with information regard ing the parents and medical history of the pregnancy an3 delivery as reported on the corresponding birth certificate.…”

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Public Health Statistics in New York City on the Ninetieth Anniversary of the Board of Health

Erhardt¹

1957

The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly

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o n i g h t we mark the ninetieth anniversary of the first meeting, on March 5,1866, of the Board of Health of the City of New York. It is not my intent to provide a lengthy discussion of vital statistics in 1866 and their compari son with the present day. Much literature on long-term trends in birth and death rates is already available and the phenome nal changes that have occurred are quite familiar. The occa sion, rather, offers the opportunity to discuss the changes in vital statistics practices that New York City has introduced during recent years, and to outline briefly some of the other aspects of the Department of Health's statistical program. A ninetieth anniversary is perhaps an appropriate time to take a look at ourselves. Even a little " pointing with pride" may be forgiven on a birthday. Some of you will be familiar with much that I am going to say; all of you, I hope, will get some insight into what the Department of Health is trying to do in its statistical program. Because of time restrictions, it will necessarily be a sketchy and limited view. Basic research, such as that conducted by the Public Health Research Insti tute, is not included in this discussion. As an operating agency, we place emphasis naturally on statistics needed for program planning, administration, and evaluation. Constant promotion of the use of modem statistical methods by the several bureaus of the Department has been part of the job. Most of the bu reaus now prepare simple and routine statistical reports on the basis of established patterns. Experienced professional statis tical time is hence largely reserved for assistance in designing

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“…Several studies have shown that the adequacy of prenatal care conforms to the general pattern by being inversely related to social and economic factors. [2][3][4][5][6][7] These studies suggest that it should be possible, by relating adequacy of prenatal supervision to social and economic characteristics of the mother, to obtain a fairly accurate picture of the prevalence and distribution of unmet need for this kind of medical care within the community.…”

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