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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"birth certificate data"”.
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Accuracy In Reporting Of Kentucky Certified Nurse-Midwives As Attendants In Birth Registration Data
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction: Birth certificate data is used nationally to determine healthcare policy, allocation of funds, and to demonstrate the legitimacy and value of Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) in maternal and neonatal outcomes. However, the validity of birth certificate data is …
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A Comparison of Certified Nurse-Midwives in Two Locations: The Freestanding Birth Center and the Hospital
The analyses of the birth certificate data show that all medical procedures have a higher likelihood of being used in hospitals than in FSBCs. Despite these significant differences in the use of medical technology across work location, the insights garnered from the interviews imply that midwives …
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Essays on Health and Economics of Tobacco Control Policies
… Tobacco 21 (T21) laws on maternal smoking and birth outcomes using birth certificate data from the National Center for Health Statistics (2014–2019). Employing difference-in-differences and triple-differences models, I compare pregnant persons aged 18–20 in T21 states to those in non-T21 states …
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Determinants of Teenage Childbearing in the United States
… a highly detailed North Carolina administrative dataset that links birth certificate data to school administrative records. I show that being born after the school entry cutoff date affects educational success in offsetting ways, with a negative impact on years of education but positive impact on …
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Examining the Relationship between Race, Ethnicity, and Sociodemographic Factors and Coverage of Three Vaccines: COVID-19, MMR, and HPV
… vaccine decision-making. In Manuscript 2, I used data from the Minnesota Department of Health’s Minnesota Immunization Information Connection (MIIC) and birth certificate data from the Center for Health Statistics (CHS) to assess on-time MMR vaccine coverage among Minnesota-born children. Findings …
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Disinfection by-products and prenatal development
… below. Past epidemiological studies of DBPs and birth outcomes have used exposure measurements for study participants that are susceptible to misclassification due in part to intra-system spatial variation. Spatial variability occurs when DBP contaminants in treated drinking water do not occur …
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Three essays on the environment and health in cities
… remain unanswered. I use large, unique micro data sets on fetal health in New York City, where 8 million people reside, to observe the impacts of air pollution and extreme weather events on birth outcomes. Previous work has shown that fetal health can affect long-run outcomes, like educational …
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Is Safe Haven Legislation an Efficacious Policy Response to Infant Abandonment: A Biopsychosocial Profile of the Target Population
… (the killing of an infant within one year of its birth). Since the initial passage of this legislation in Texas in 1999, there have been more unsafe infant abandonments than accounts of safe haven abandonments. As this legislation provides for anonymous infant abandonment researchers cannot study …