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PAC Prevention Strategies

PAC Prevention Strategies. Boston Leading Prevention Actions. Women’s Health Questionnaire developed as a comprehensive health assessment tool. Revised FIMR form to collect data on women’s health prior to conception. BHSI now uses PPOR-informed data collection.

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PAC Prevention Strategies

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  1. PAC Prevention Strategies

  2. Boston Leading Prevention Actions • Women’s Health Questionnaire developed as a comprehensive health assessment tool. • Revised FIMR form to collect data on women’s health prior to conception. • BHSI now uses PPOR-informed data collection.

  3. Columbus Leading Prevention Strategy • In response to poor prenatal care access and utilization • The Council on Healthy Mothers and Babies has convened all hospital, health center and health department OB providers. • Creating a centralized scheduling system for first prenatal care appointments • Obtained Federal funds through the Community Access Project (CAP) and Caring for Two.

  4. Preconceptional interventions Improved linkages with MCH & family planning Joint projects with STD program Target moms receiving infant Healthy Start Continue/replicate Magnolia Project SIDS Prevention Brochure for Older Caregivers Awareness campaign through black churches Replicate Moses Project Jacksonville Leading Prevention Strategy(s)

  5. Nashville Leading Prevention Strategies Maternal Health and Prematurity • Early Teen Pregnancy Identification Project • Created because of 1st trimester prenatal care utilization disparities--Oct 2002 • Cross Division partnership between Family Planning Clinic and MCH--Oct 2002 • In School Pregnancy Case Management • Created because of high pregnancy related school drop out rates--May 2002 • Program planning and logistics--July 2002 • Implementation delayed

  6. Nashville Leading Prevention Strategies Infant Health • Baskets for Babies • Accepted as an intervention--May 2002 • First Basket made--May 2002 • First community Presentation--June 2002 • Partnership development--June 2002 • First donations received--November 2002

  7. SAVE OUR BABIES CAMPAIGN Orange County Florida • Targets geographical areas in the county that contribute most to the overall fetal-infant mortality rate • The Initial two targeted zip codes in 1999 and 2000 have the poorest county birth outcomes, have the lowest per capita incomes, and have the highest percentage of Blacks.

  8. ORANGE COUNTY PREVENTION STRATEGY SAVE OUR BABIES CAMPAIGN • Program Goals: • Provide and promote maternal-child • health education • Increase access to prenatal care and improve participation by utilizing referral resources • Provide training and support for community leaders, paraprofessionals and consumers

  9. Philadelphia Prevention Strategies Strategies involve integration of family planning, gynecology, social work, adult health, prenatal and Healthy Start services at a federally qualified health center: 1. Women with a positive pregnancy test who are referred for prenatal care will be connected with Healthy Start at that visit. 2. Women seen in family planning who have medical risk factors for preterm birth will be referred to Adult Medicine for treatment and to Healthy Start for education and coordination of interconceptional care. 3. Women with history of preterm birth will be referred to Healthy Start for educational materials.

  10. Tucson Prevention Strategies • Collaborate with Maricopa County Department of Public Health to develop and implement comprehensive and sustained presentations on disparities in fetal and infant death to obstetric and pediatric providers in Arizona. • The desired result will be improvements in risk screening by providers working with women and children.

  11. Leading Prevention Strategy Pinellas County Health Department • Provide preconceptional and interconceptional care to women of reproductive age

  12. Leading Prevention Strategy Baltimore City PPOR PAC Team • Coordinated intensive case management—institutions, community-based providers • Incorporate FIMR & PPOR findings into planning for case management services. • Restructure services to provide interconception care to women with losses & VLBW. • Establish referral for post-loss/inter-conception care to Maternal & Infant Nursing.

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