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Moving toward evidence-based federal healthy start program evaluations: Accounting for bias in birth outcomes studies

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  • Meghea, C.I.
  • Raffo, J.E.
  • VanderMeulen, P.
  • Roman, L.A.

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We used administrative and screening data from 2009 to 2010 to determine if Healthy Start (HS), an enhanced prenatal services program, is reaching the most vulnerable African American women in Kent County, Michigan. Women in HS are at higher risk of key predictors of birth outcomes compared with other women. To advance toward evidence-based HS program evaluations in the absence of randomized controlled trials, future studies using comparison groups need to appropriately establish baseline equivalence on a variety of risk factors related to birth outcomes.

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  • Meghea, C.I. & Raffo, J.E. & VanderMeulen, P. & Roman, L.A., 2014. "Moving toward evidence-based federal healthy start program evaluations: Accounting for bias in birth outcomes studies," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 104(S1), pages 25-27.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2013.301276_4
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301276
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