Prenatal care and pregnancy outcomes during the recession: The Washington State experience

E.S. Fisher, J.P. LoGerfo and J.R. Daling

American Journal of Public Health, 1985, vol. 75, issue 8, 866-869

Abstract: To determine whether changes in prenatal care utilization and adverse pregnancy outcomes occurred among poor residents of Washington State during the recent recession, we examined all births occurring from 1980 to 1983 to women in the poorest census tracts of the three major metropolitan counties in Washington State (N = 15,735). A comparison sample consisted of all births occurring in the highest income census tracts (N = 16,295). Because the impact of the recession was hypothesized to be greatest in 1982, rates in 1982 were compared with rates in 1980. The proportion of births receiving late or no prenatal care increased in both the low-income tracts (6.2% to 8.2%) and the high-income tracts (1.6% to 2.3%). The proportion of low birthweight infants increased only in the low-income tracts (6.3% to 7.4%). The prevalence of maternal anemia (hematocrit

Date: 1985
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