This is a list of suggested resources for a webpage that describes prenatal care in five different countries around the world - India, Peru, South Africa, Sweden and United States.
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ICPR 281 : Violence & Public Health Web Project Prenatal Care (HC)
Statistics, Data, Country Reports :
National Center for Health Statistics
Prenatal care in the United States
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/prenatal.htm
Population Reference Bureau Datafinder
http://www.prb.org/Datafinder.aspx
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
An independent agency that provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States.http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/mch/mh/
UNICEF Statistics
http://www.childinfo.org/eddb/index.htmWorld Health Organization
WHO Health Topics > Maternal Health
Look for Antenatal care or prenatal care
http://www.childinfo.org/areas/antenatal/
http://www.who.int/topics/maternal_health/en/
WHOSIS (World Health Organization Statistical Information System)
Information on over 50 core health indicators, which are organized into six major areas: mortality and burden of disease, health service coverage, risk factors, health system inputs, differentials in health outcome and coverage, as well as basic socio-demographic statistics.
http://www.who.int/whosis/database/core/core_select.cfm
Search Terms and Keywords:
Related ideas and causes:
limited access to prenatal care (cost, availability, insufficient number of health workers), poverty, war, malnutrition and recurring famine, disease (lack of clean drinking water and poor living conditions), war, natural disasters, AIDS/ Epidemics, interventions, vitamins, attitudes to pregnancyKeywords:
antenatal, prenatal care (MESH), maternal health, infant mortality, pregnancy and childbirth, intervention, supplements, vitamins
Medical Subject Headings (MESH) for searching PubMed
Social values/ethnology and prenatal care (to search for attitude towards pregnancy with implications in prenatal care)
Publications:
The Lancet’s Article Collections (including a series on Child Survival, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis)
http://www.thelancet.com/collections
Also see The Lancet’s Archive Series http://www.thelancet.com/collections/series
for more topical collections, including maternal and child nutrition.
In the April 12-18, 2008 issue of Lancet, there are in-depth reports on South Africa because of the Countdown 2008 Conference.
South Africa has the highest number of HIV-positive people. One-third of all pregnant women are HIV-positive and HIV infection cause half of under-5 mortality in 2003. Treatment gap for HIV and tuberculosis is wide.
http://www.thelancet.com/collections
Also see The Lancet’s Archive Series http://www.thelancet.com/collections/series
for more topical collections, including maternal and child nutrition.
In the April 12-18, 2008 issue of Lancet, there are in-depth reports on South Africa because of the Countdown 2008 Conference.
South Africa has the highest number of HIV-positive people. One-third of all pregnant women are HIV-positive and HIV infection cause half of under-5 mortality in 2003. Treatment gap for HIV and tuberculosis is wide.
Databases - to search for articles from the medical and epidemiological literature:
Access world news
Provider: NewsBank
Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 700 newspapers around the globe, including the NY Times (2000-present). Database covers 1977-present.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.
PubMed
Provider: NCBI
Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
PubMed central
Many fulltext public health and epidemiology journals relevant to global health. A search engine allows for searching within this collection.
Benchmarks and Assessments:
One of the most widely adopted measure of progress in the provision of maternal care is to measure improvements against the stated goals of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). There are eight stated goals of which #4: Reduce Child Mortality and #5: Improve Maternal Health are directly linked to Prenatal care and its availability. To provide a quantitative measure toward the fulfillment of Millennium Development Goals, targets were established and indicators developed to track progress.
The followiing documents are helpful in understanding how MDG indicators can provide a context to interpret reported data in the medical literature.
The Millennium Development Goals Report
http://www.undp.org/mdg/
Indicators for Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals: Definitions, Rationale, Concepts and Sources
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Host.aspx?Content=Indicators/Handbook.htm
The followiing documents are helpful in understanding how MDG indicators can provide a context to interpret reported data in the medical literature.
The Millennium Development Goals Report
http://www.undp.org/mdg/
Indicators for Monitoring the Millennium Development Goals: Definitions, Rationale, Concepts and Sources
http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Host.aspx?Content=Indicators/Handbook.htm