Reducing neonatal mortality rate with nurse-midwives

Authors :: Barry S. Levy
Frederick S. Wilkinson
William M. Marine
Source :: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 109:50-58
Publication Year :: 1971
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 1971.
Abstract: Newborn health indices were measured before, during, and after a demonstration nurse-midwife program introduced to relieve a health manpower shortage at a county hospital in rural California. During the program, prenatal care increased, and prematurity and neonatal mortality rate decreased at the county hospital. After the 3 year program, prenatal care decreased while prematurity rose from 6.6 to 9.8 per cent (p