Re: Perinatal morbity: was: List

From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse (el@lisse.NA)
Tue Oct 31 00:43:13 2000


Betsy,

At 14:44 30.10.00 -0600, Betsy Hyde wrote:

>is it true that prematurity is *directly related to prenatal care (or lack
>of it) * as you state? I'm not sure that's been proven.
>
>my gut feeling is that racial and socioeconomic status probably have more
>to do with prematurity rates than prenatal care, per se.

My gut feeling is that if they got prenatal care in the US we'd see a difference.

In Germany this is all regulated by law and paid for by the Medical Aids. Even the perinatal statistics for each Federal State are manadatory for each hospital that wants to be reimbursed.

I know figures from two hospitals in two different States (Saarland and Sachsen Anhalt) where the average number of perinatal visits were so about 14 which as a bit better than the State average of 13.

It is my understanding that the nationwide figures are similar, ie around 13 antenatal visits. (In Namibia we are happy if they have more than two, and in my small town they have 4 on average)

How many ante natal visits nationwide in the US?

el





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