Promoting Access to Prenatal Care: Lessons from the California Experience


 

Publication Date: May 2003

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health

Type: Report

Coverage: California

Abstract:

Improving access to prenatal care has been a public policy priority in the United States for the past 15 years. This report, prepared for the Kaiser Family Foundation by Paula Braveman, M.D. of the University of California, San Francisco and others, examines the impact of the Medicaid pregnancy-related expansions and reforms in California on the use of prenatal care during the late 1980s and 1990s.