Open AccessEffects of the North Carolina Prematurity Prevention Program among public patients delivering at New Hanover Memorial Hospital.
Author(s) -
Deborah L. Covington,
Joanne C. Carl,
John G. Daley,
Deborah Cushing,
M. P. Churchill
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.78.11.1493
Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , odds , public health , south carolina , low birth weight , demography , family medicine , environmental health , pediatrics , pregnancy , logistic regression , nursing , public administration , pathology , sociology , biology , political science , genetics
Twelve per cent of the 847 women who delivered in one hospital prior to implementation of the North Carolina Prematurity Prevention Program had low-birthweight births compared with 9.5 per cent of the 748 women who delivered during the program. Controlling for known risk factors, both low- and very-low birthweight births among Whites (Odds Ratio 2.0 and 3.7 respectively) and very-low-birthweight births among Blacks (OR 2.9) were reduced.