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Postnatal Care in Low-Income Urban African American Women: Relationship to Level of Prenatal Care Sought

Journal of PerinatologyPublished 1 February 2000
Ruth York, Lorraine Tulman, Kathleen M. Brown
Citations34
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SJR score0.98
SNIP1.23

TL;DR

The level of prenatal care is indicative of the level of postnatal care women seek for themselves and their children in the first year after delivery, as confirmed in a study of low-income African American women recruited at delivery at an urban tertiary medical center.

Abstract

This study confirms that the level of prenatal care is indicative of the level of postnatal care women seek for themselves and their children in the first year after delivery.

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Social SciencesMedicine