Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: challenges in reducing disparities in reproductive and perinatal outcomes through evidence-based public health
  • Methodological approach to assessing the evidence
  • Evidence-based public health: origins, assumptions, and cautions
  • Access to family planning and induced abortion
  • Preconceptional health promotion
  • Infertility status and infertility treatment: racial and ethnic disparities
  • Public health interventions for perinatal HIV and STI screening in pregnancy
  • What is the role of prenatal care in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in pregnancy outcomes?
  • Current approaches to reducing premature births and implications for disparity elimination
  • Prenatal case management of pregnant women: what is the evidence for its contribution to a reduction of disparities in perinatal outcomes?
  • Behavioral treatment methods for pregnant smokers: the evidence base for prenatal care programs and professional practice
  • Substance abuse in pregnancy: the impact of screening and treatment on improving perinatal outcomes and reducing racial and ethnic disparities
  • The evidence for perinatal depression screening and treatment
  • Supplemental nutrition programs during pregnancy and the early postnatal period
  • Group prenatal care and doula care for pregnant women
  • Contemporary childbirth in the United States: interventions and disparities
  • Regionalized perinatal care: an evidence-based intervention in development.