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Source: Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan
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Armstrong, Elizabeth M. |
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Sense of Control in Pregnancy:Does it Promote Maternal and Fetal Health? Working Paper, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2000 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan Keyword(s): Birthweight; Child Health; Control; Mothers, Health; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Pre/post Natal Health Care; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Substance Use; Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. INTRODUCTION EXCERPT: In the first part of the paper, I explore the history of medical and public health efforts to improve birth outcomes in the 20th century and consider the current public discourse around pregnancy and prenatal risk through an analysis of several kinds of public rhetoric: federal government policy statements and goals; the policy statements and positions articulated by medical and public health groups...and finally, the pregnancy self-help lay literature, in the form of books, magazines, and websites geared toward an audience of pregnant women...taken together, these sources demonstrate the extent to which current policy efforts to improve birth outcomes rest not on social interventions, but on expectations of personal control of risk factors. In the second part of the paper, I examine the relationship between individual control, prenatal behaviors, and pregnancy outcomes using linked mother-child data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)...I construct a measure of personal control and then test whether it is related to risk-taking or risk-avoidance behaviors during pregnancy, such as compliance with medical regimen, diet, taking prenatal vitamins, and substance use, as well as ultimate pregnancy outcomes, including preterm delivery, birthweight, and maternal weight gain. |
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Armstrong, Elizabeth M. "Sense of Control in Pregnancy:Does it Promote Maternal and Fetal Health?" Working Paper, Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2000. |