1-20 of 553 Search Results for

birth

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Image
Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 1 Low birth weight and preterm birth rates (1994–2017) by mother's race and education. More
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1987) 12 (2): 366–368.
Published: 01 April 1987
...Eugene Declercq Raymond DeVries, Regulating Birth: Medicine, Midwives and the Law (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985), 194 pp., $29.95. Ann Oakley, The Captured Womb: A History of the Medical Care of Pregnant Women (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1984), 337 pp., $24.95...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2012) 37 (3): 551–557.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Rebekah E. Gee; Michelle M. Alletto; Anthony E. Keck Louisiana ranks forty-ninth nationally in birth outcomes indicators such as infant mortality and in the percentage of low birth weight and very low birth weight babies. This article describes the formation of the Birth Outcomes Initiative...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1984) 9 (3): 515–526.
Published: 01 June 1984
...Barbara Janowitz; Sylvia Wallace; Galba Araujo; Lorena Araujo This paper examines factors associated with the cesarean birth rate, including medical condition and method of payment, in the largest maternity hospital of Fortaleza. Brazil. Data were collected on 5996 women who delivered...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1985) 9 (4): 725–726.
Published: 01 August 1985
...John M. Owen; James W. Vaupel Victor R. Fuchs, How We Live: An Economic Perspective on Americans from Birth to Death (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), 293 pp., $17.50 Copyright © 1985 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1985...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (4): 813–835.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Chris Hafner-Eaton; Laurie K. Pearce To many Americans, the idea of home birth, the use of a “direct-entry midwife,” or both seem archaic. Although much of the professional medical community disapproves of either, state laws regarding birth choices vary dramatically and are not necessarily based...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (3): 499–526.
Published: 01 June 2000
...David M. Studdert; Lori A. Fritz; Troyen A. Brennan Florida's Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan (NICA) is the most significant experiment with compensation for medical injury yet undertaken in the United States. As NICA enters its second decade of operation, maintaining...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2000) 25 (3): 593–594.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good Deborah Kuhn McGregor. From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,1998. 272 pp. $55.00 cloth; $23.00 paper. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 JHPPL 25.3-05.BkRevs (565-612) 5/12/00 11:59 AM Page...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2001) 26 (6): 1291–1324.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Christopher J. Conover; Peter J. Rankin; Frank A. Sloan A comparative study was conducted in two neighboring states, Tennessee and North Carolina, to determine whether Medicaid managed care (implemented in Tennessee as TennCare) affected prenatal care, care patterns at labor-delivery, and birth...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Allan Horwitz Eric Caplan. Mind Games: American Culture and the Birth of Psychotherapy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 242 pp. $35.00 cloth. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Books: Review Symposium on Vulnerable Populations...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (1990) 15 (2): 441–445.
Published: 01 April 1990
...Martha A. Field Carmel Shalev, Birth Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), 201 pp., $19.95. Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Books Reviews Carmel Shalev, Birth Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), 201 pp., $19.95. Carmel Shalev believes...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2005) 30 (6): 1178–1182.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Brian K. Finch Dalton Conley, Kate W. Strully, and Neil G. Bennett. The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 258 pp. $55.00 cloth; $21.95 paper. © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Adams, M. 2001 . Validity of Birth...
Journal Article
J Health Polit Policy Law (2007) 32 (1): 142–146.
Published: 01 February 2007
...Elizabeth M. Armstrong Raymond DeVries. A Pleasing Birth: Midwives and Maternity Care in the Netherlands. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. 296 pp. $74.50 cloth; $24.95 paper. Duke University Press 2007 Books J. Eric...
Image
Published: 01 August 2016
Figure 4 Life Expectancy at Birth by Percentage of GDP Spent on Health, 2006 (for Most Developed OECD Countries) Source : OECD 2009 , 2010 More
Image
Published: 01 August 2016
Figure 10 Female Life Expectancy at Birth in the United States and Four Comparably Wealthy Nations: 1950–2007 Sources : OECD.StatExtracts, various years ; UN Demographic Yearbook ( 1950 ) More
Image
Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 2 Low birth weight rates 1994–2017 by mother's race. More
Image
Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 3 Preterm birth rates 1994–2017 by mother's race. More
Image
Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 4 Predicted rates of low birth weight by race, education, and state EITC. Note : 1st, 50th, and 99th percentiles for each policy variable are calculated with the entire sample of non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic white mothers. Rates in figure 4 control for marital status, mother's More
Image
Published: 01 April 2022
Figure 5 Predicted rates of preterm birth by race, education, and state EITC. Note : 1st, 50th, and 99th percentiles for each policy variable are calculated with the entire sample of non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic white mothers. Rates in figure 5 control for marital status, mother's age More
Image
Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 3 Proportion of Births and Risk of Infant Mortality for Foreign-Born to US-Born Women: All Births, United States, 2007–10 Source : Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2016 More