Maternal-Child Health Health care delivery for maternal-child populations represents a key opportunity for improvement in Missouri. Addressing the complex health needs of mothers and infants is important to end preventable deaths, while greatly improving health and well-being. The U.S. Department of ...
A cost-effective or cost-saving mobile app intervention that improved mother-infant bonding and/or reduced postnatal depression would have wide-ranging benefits for healthcare services and patients. An online service would be accessible to previously inaccessible rural and remote patients or patients una...
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This work, along with the anecdotal evidence from Europe, suggests that reducing job stress may benefit infant health. However, the first step is to provide more empirical evidence on the exact relationship between employment, job stress, and birth outcomes, which is the aim of this study. The...
Infants born to birthing parents with obesity could be at a higher risk of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID), according to a cohort study in JAMA Pediatrics. Researchers examined data from the National Center for Health Statistics of almost 19 million live births across the US from 2015 ...
An apparently normal and healthy male infant weighing 1440 g was delivered. The newborn did well and was found to be growing and developing normally at 18 months of age. Although the technical aspects of prolonged life support are demanding and the economic costs are very high ($217 784), ...
maternal mortality; infant mortality; health disparities; social determinants of health1. Introduction Maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States (U.S.) constitute an important public health problem, because these rates surpass those in similarly large, developed, and wealthy countries, ...
The short to long-term negative effects of maternal mental disorders on parenting, child physical health, behavior, and cognitive development are well recognized [13,18,19]. Depressed mothers often experience difficulties in establishing affective and protective feelings towards their infant, a process ...