Reducing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive and Perinatal Outcomes

1. Introduction: Challenges in Reducing Disparities in Reproductive and Perinatal Outcomes Through Evidence-Based Public Health
Arden Handler

2. Methodological Approach to Assessing the Evidence
Joan Kennelly

3. Evidence-Based Public Health: Origins, Assumptions, and Cautions
Luis A. Avilés, Dani Filc

4. Access to Family Planning and Induced Abortion
Julie Chor, Ashley Dyer, Bryna Harwood

5. Preconceptional Health Promotion
Merry-K. Moos, Amanda C. Bennett

6. Infertility Status and Infertility Treatment: Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Sylvia Guendelman, Laura Stachel

7. Public Health Interventions for Perinatal HIV and STI Screening in Pregnancy
Whitney B. You, Ann E. B. Borders, Beth F. Pellettieri, Patricia M. Garcia

8. What is the Role of Prenatal Care in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy Outcomes?
Hannah Holcombe Walford, Sonya Trinh, Anna Wiencrot, Michael C. Lu

9. Current Approaches to Reducing Premature Births and Implications for Disparity Elimination
Vijaya K. Hogan, Meghan E. Shanahan, Diane L. Rowley

10. Prenatal Case Management of Pregnant Women: What Is the Evidence for Its Contribution to a Reduction of Disparities in Perinatal Outcomes?
L. Michele Issel, Jaime C. Slaughter, Sarah G. Forrestal

11. Behavioral Treatment Methods for Pregnant Smokers: The Evidence Base for Prenatal Care Programs and Professional Practice
Richard Windsor

12. Substance Use in Pregnancy: The Impact of Screening and Treatment on Improving Perinatal Outcomes and Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities
Suzanne Carlberg-Racich, Ellen Mason

13. The Evidence for Perinatal Depression Screening and Treatment
Laura J. Miller, Renu Gupta, Andrea M. Scremin

14. Supplemental Nutrition Programs During Pregnancy and the Early Postnatal Period
Noel Chávez

15. Group Prenatal Care and Doula Care for Pregnant Women
Susan C. Vonderheid, Rieko Kishi, Kathleen F. Norr, Carrie Klima

16. Contemporary Childbirth in the United States: Interventions and Disparities
Eugene Declercq, Mary Barger, Judith Weiss

17. Regionalized Perinatal Care: An Evidence-Based Intervention in Development
Lindsay A. Thompson, David C. Goodman

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Maternal and Child Health