New Approaches to Comprehensive Prenatal Care for Migrant Women
Author: Larson, Kim L. RN, MPH
Date Published: 1986
This paper will discuss the interventions implemented in the first two years of a three-year demonstration project to improve maternal health status and pregnancy outcome. The University of North Carolina School of Public Health and Tri-County Community Health Center (TCCHC), a federally funded migrant health center, have been collaborating on a maternal and child health improvement project since 1984. The impetus for this project came from the findings of a 1983 study of the maternal and child health needs at this migrant health center by Dr. Elizabeth Watkins. Findings in that study identified two major problem areas: the high-risk status of migrant mothers and children, and fragmentation and low utilization of health and social resources by migrant farm families. Specifically, there were few prenatal and postpartum follow-up visits, lack of coordination of services between local and state maternal and child health programs and the migrant health center, and lack of standard protocols for maternal and child health programs within the center.
Date Published: 1986
This paper will discuss the interventions implemented in the first two years of a three-year demonstration project to improve maternal health status and pregnancy outcome. The University of North Carolina School of Public Health and Tri-County Community Health Center (TCCHC), a federally funded migrant health center, have been collaborating on a maternal and child health improvement project since 1984. The impetus for this project came from the findings of a 1983 study of the maternal and child health needs at this migrant health center by Dr. Elizabeth Watkins. Findings in that study identified two major problem areas: the high-risk status of migrant mothers and children, and fragmentation and low utilization of health and social resources by migrant farm families. Specifically, there were few prenatal and postpartum follow-up visits, lack of coordination of services between local and state maternal and child health programs and the migrant health center, and lack of standard protocols for maternal and child health programs within the center.
