By Arden Handler (auth.), Arden Handler, Joan Kennelly, Nadine Peacock (eds.)
Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive and Perinatal results: The proof from Population-Based Interventions
Arden Handler, Joan Kennelly, Nadine Peacock, editors
Among women’s overall healthiness matters, reproductive concerns, either prenatal and postpartum, carry specific prominence. but regardless of the various courses devoted to bettering women’s reproductive healthiness, maternal and boy or girl morbidity and mortality charges in minority groups stay unchanged—or have elevated. Confronting this alarming statistic head-on, Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive and Perinatal Outcomes is the 1st ebook systematically analyzing public well-being interventions designed towards assembly this significant and elusive objective. Its participants supply the simplest considering and perform in this complex subject, clarifying the connection among evidence-based medication and evidence-based public overall healthiness and its capability for expanding parity, contemplating interventions within the a number of contexts of women’s lives, reviewing the facts base for every application or initiative featured, and describing methodologies for comparing interventions. The ensuing quantity advocates for an integrative lifespan process, together with themes similar to:
- Family making plans
- STI and HIV/AIDS screening and therapy
- Smoking cessation and decreasing publicity to environmental smoke
- Preconceptional well-woman care
- Depression screening and remedy
- Labor/delivery techniques and intrapartum care
- Emerging prenatal care interventions, from centering being pregnant to doula aid
For pros and graduate scholars in psychiatry, psychology, sociology, women’s well-being, and public well-being, Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive and Perinatal Outcomes reframes a suite of ongoing matters and courses the reader towards cutting-edge solutions.