3 results match your criteria: "279 University Hall[Affiliation]"

Growing a Best Babies Zone: Lessons Learned from the Pilot Phase of a Multi-Sector, Place-Based Initiative to Reduce Infant Mortality.

Matern Child Health J

May 2016

Division of General Academic Pediatrics, MGH Center for Child & Adolescent Health Research and Policy, MassGeneral Hospital for Children, Boston, MA, USA.

Purpose: Infant mortality reduction in the U.S. has been addressed predominantly through clinical approaches.

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Bringing the MCH Life Course Perspective to life.

Matern Child Health J

February 2014

School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 279 University Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA,

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Integrating the life course perspective into a local maternal and child health program.

Matern Child Health J

April 2012

School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 279 University Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

For many decades, early access to prenatal care has been considered the gold standard for improving birth outcomes. In Contra Costa County, a diverse urban and suburban county of over one million people in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Family Maternal and Child Health Programs of Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS) have seen high rates of early entry into prenatal care since 2000. Yet despite our best efforts to increase access to quality prenatal care, our rates of low birth weight and infant mortality, especially among African Americans, continue to be high.

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