A Visit to the Pediatrician as a Part of Comprehensive Prenatal Care?

Introduction: The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend that expectant parents receive a preventive visit with a pediatrician in the prenatal period (a pediatric prenatal visit, or PPV). Discussing newborn health topics in the prenatal period tends to be more effective than immediately postpartum, and research suggests, for example, that the PPV increases timely childhood immunizations. However, only 22% of expectant parents have these visits, and there are significant disparities by race and income.

Lost Lessons of the 1918 Influenza: The 1920s Working Hypothesis, the Public Health Paradigm, and the Prevention of Deadly Pandemics.

In standard historical accounts, the hyperlethal 1918 flu pandemic was inevitable once a novel influenza virus appeared. However, in the years following the pandemic, it was obvious to distinguished flu experts from around the world that social and environmental conditions interacted with infectious agents and could enhance the virulence of flu germs. On the basis of the timing and geographic pattern of the pandemic, they hypothesized that an "essential cause" of the pandemic's extraordinary lethality was the extreme, prolonged, and industrial-scale overcrowding of US soldiers in World War I, particularly on troopships.

Impact of the Rochester LARC Initiative on adolescents' utilization of long-acting reversible contraception.

Background: Preventing unintended teen pregnancy is a national public health priority, and increasing access to long-acting reversible contraception is part of the recommended strategy for the achievement of this goal. Nevertheless, adolescent long-acting reversible contraceptive use across the nation has remained low, even after national and state-level programs increased coverage for no-cost contraception. One persistent barrier is misinformation about the safety, efficacy, and availability of long-acting reversible contraception for teens.

A Snapshot of Urban Adolescent Women's Contraceptive Knowledge at the Onset of a Community Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Promotion Initiative.

Study Objective: To contextualize young women's knowledge and attitudes regarding contraception at the outset of an intervention promoting long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) use for teen pregnancy prevention.

Design And Setting: Our intervention was on the basis of diffusion of innovation theory, and at the outset we were interested in likely early adopters' existing knowledge and attitudes toward contraception. This mixed methods study consisted of focus groups within positive youth development programs in Rochester, New York; we discussed young women's knowledge and sources of information for all US Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive methods.

Overcrowding and Mortality During the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.

The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed more than 50 million people. Why was 1918 such an outlier? I. W.