The development and application of a new tool to assess the adequacy of the content and timing of antenatal care.

Background: Current measures of antenatal care use are limited to initiation of care and number of visits. This study aimed to describe the development and application of a tool to assess the adequacy of the content and timing of antenatal care.

Methods: The Content and Timing of care in Pregnancy (CTP) tool was developed based on clinical relevance for ongoing antenatal care and recommendations in national and international guidelines.

Birth outcomes of immigrant women in the United States, France, and Belgium.

Objectives: To compare maternal characteristics and birth outcomes of Mexico-born and native-born mothers in the United States and those of North African mothers living in France and Belgium to French and Belgian nationals.

Methods: We examined information from single live birth certificates for 285,371 Mexico-born and 3,131,632 U.S.

High birthweights among infants of north African immigrants in Belgium.

Objectives: This study examined birthweights of North African immigrants in Belgium.

Methods: Analyses focused on Belgian single live birth certificates from 1981 to 1988.

Results: Low-birthweight (< 2500 g) rates were 3.

Birthweight, preterm births and neonatal mortality in Belgium and the United States.

Belgium is known to have a lesser low birthweight rate and a lower infant mortality rate than the United States. We used previously unpublished data to show that beneath this comparison lies a more complicated picture. Singleton live birth certificates for 1986-87 were analysed.