{"id":5347,"date":"2026-07-27T18:34:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/?page_id=5347"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:34:38","slug":"transcript-heaman-inadequate-prenatal-care-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/transcript-heaman-inadequate-prenatal-care-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript &#8211; Heaman &#8211; inadequate prenatal care outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So then we moved on to look at why should we be concerned about inadequate prenatal care?&nbsp; Does it really make a difference?&nbsp; Is prenatal care important?&nbsp; So we did a study where we looked at what are the outcomes associated with inadequate prenatal care?&nbsp; And we did this after controlling for things like income, region of residence, maternal age, number of births and medical conditions so that we controlled for all that.&nbsp; After controlling for those factors, inadequate prenatal care was still associated with an increased odds or increased likelihood of preterm birth, stillbirth, low birth weight and having an infant admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit. Also inadequate prenatal care seems to have an effect on your use of healthcare services after birth.&nbsp; So women who did not get good use of prenatal care were also less likely to have their infant immunized by age one. One other thing was that women who did not use prenatal care well, were also less likely to initiate breastfeeding. So there\u2019s a number of outcomes that I think are important and it shows although this doesn\u2019t demonstrate cause and effect relationships, there is an association so we know that if we get women in for prenatal care, hopefully we can prevent some of these adverse outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So then we moved on to look at why should we be concerned about inadequate prenatal care?&nbsp; Does it really make a difference?&nbsp; Is prenatal care important?&nbsp; So we did a study where we looked at what are the outcomes associated with inadequate prenatal care?&nbsp; And we did this after controlling for things like income, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5348,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5347\/revisions\/5348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}