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Maternal and Child Health Journal

Issue 7/2016

Obstetric Care in Rural Georgia: Challenges and Opportunities

Content (26 Articles)

Obstetric Provider Maldistribution: Georgia, USA, 2011

Bridget Spelke, Adrienne D. Zertuche, Roger Rochat

Obstetric Provider Trainees in Georgia: Characteristics and Attitudes About Practice in Obstetric Provider Shortage Areas

Elizabeth A. Smulian, Leilah Zahedi, Julie Hurvitz, Abigail Talbot, Audra Williams, Zoë Julian, Adrienne D. Zertuche, Roger Rochat

Working Towards Safe Motherhood: Delays and Barriers to Prenatal Care for Women in Rural and Peri-Urban Areas of Georgia

Erika Meyer, Monique Hennink, Roger Rochat, Zoë Julian, Meredith Pinto, Adrienne D. Zertuche, Bridget Spelke, Andrew Dott, Pat Cota

Evidence for a Complex Relationship Among Weight Retention, Cortisol and Breastfeeding in Postpartum Women

Heather Straub, Clarissa Simon, Beth A. Plunkett, Loraine Endres, Emma K. Adam, Chelsea Mckinney, Calvin J. Hobel, John M. Thorp, Tonse Raju, Madeleine Shalowitz

Group Prenatal Care Results in Medicaid Savings with Better Outcomes: A Propensity Score Analysis of CenteringPregnancy Participation in South Carolina

Sarah Gareau, Ana Lòpez-De Fede, Brandon L. Loudermilk, Tammy H. Cummings, James W. Hardin, Amy H. Picklesimer, Elizabeth Crouch, Sarah Covington-Kolb

Open Access

Ethno-Specific Risk Factors for Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: Findings from the Born in Bradford Cohort Study

Tomasina Stacey, Stephanie Prady, Melanie Haith-Cooper, Soo Downe, Nigel Simpson, Kate Pickett

Maternal Depression and Childhood Overweight in the CHAMACOS Study of Mexican-American Children

Jocelyn Audelo, Katherine Kogut, Kim G. Harley, Lisa G. Rosas, Lauren Stein, Brenda Eskenazi

You have no Choice but to go on: How Physicians and Midwives in Ghana Cope with High Rates of Perinatal Death

Alissa D. Petrites, Patricia Mullan, Kathryn Spangenberg, Katherine J. Gold

Are Parental Perceptions of Child Activity Levels and Overall Health More Important than Perceptions of Weight?

Nita Vangeepuram, Michelle A. Ramos, Kezhen Fei, Ashley M. Fox, Carol R. Horowitz, Lawrence C. Kleinman, Maida P. Galvez

Grandmothers’ Beliefs and Practices in Infant Safe Sleep

Mary E. Aitken, Alison Rose, S. Hope Mullins, Beverly K. Miller, Todd Nick, Mallikarjuna Rettiganti, Rosemary Nabaweesi, Leanne Whiteside-Mansell

Ethnic Differences in Gestational Weight Gain: A Population-Based Cohort Study in Norway

Tarja I. Kinnunen, Christin W. Waage, Christine Sommer, Line Sletner, Jani Raitanen, Anne Karen Jenum

Impact of Missing Data for Body Mass Index in an Epidemiologic Study

Hilda Razzaghi, Sarah C. Tinker, Amy H. Herring, Penelope P. Howards, D. Kim Waller, Candice Y. Johnson

Factors Associated with Age at Breastfeeding Cessation in Amazonian Infants: Applying a Proximal–Distal Framework

Annie D. Kearns, Marcia C. Castro, Bárbara H. Lourenço, Rosângela A. Augusto, Marly A. Cardoso

Cultural Norms in Conflict: Breastfeeding Among Hispanic Immigrants in Rural Washington State

Sarah Hohl, Beti Thompson, Monica Escareño, Catherine Duggan