Table of Contents

Introduction; Part I. Prenatal Care and Complications of Pregnancy: 1. Effect of prenatal care upon medical conditions in pregnancy Phillip Stubblefield; 2. Health behaviors during pregnancy: risks and interventions Lisa L. Paine and Lisa M. Garceau; Part II. Preventing Prematurity: 3. Causes of prematurity David A. Savitz and Lisa M. Pastore; 4. Interventions to prevent prematurity Robert L. Goldenberg and Dwight J. Rouse; 5. Long-term outcomes of prematurity Marie C. McCormick; Part III. New Findings and Long-Term Evidence on Intrauterine Growth Restriction: 6. Causes of intrauterine growth restriction Kathleen Maher Rasmussen; 7. Impact of prenatal care on intrauterine growth restriction Linda J. Heffner; 8. Short- and long-term outcomes of intrauterine growth restriction Kathleen G. Nelson; Part IV. Preventing and Treathing Birth Defects: 9. Prevalence and etiology of birth defects Joan M. Stoler; 10. Developing fetal diagnostic technologies Richard B. Parad; 11. Options following the diagnosis of a fetal anomaly Mark I. Evans, Yuval Yaron, Ralph L. Kramer and Mark P. Johnson; Part V. Prentatal Care as an Integral Component of Women's Health Care: 12. Opportunities for improving maternal and infant health through prenatal oral health care James J. Crall; 13. Family planning: need and opportunities Lorraine V. Klerman; 14. Maternal-fetal conflict is not a useful construct Wendy Chavkin and Peter Bernstein; 15. Linking prenatal care with women's health care Paul H. Wise and Marisa Brett; 16. A European perspective on prenatal care: an integrated system Jacques Milliez; Epilogue: a commentary on the cost-effectiveness of prenatal care Joanna E. Siegel and Marie C. McCormick; Index.

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' … a wide-ranging and hugely informative interpretation and analysis of prenatal care - an interpretation which sets it firmly, as women's health.' The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist