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October 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
East Side House, Inc., a social services agency in the Bronx, N.Y., replicated its Community-Based Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program, developed in 1997 in collaboration with Planned Parenthood of New York City.
November 15, 2012 | Story
An interdisciplinary trio of grantees finds research on heart disease, birth outcomes and health-related behavior misleading and inadequate to determine public health policy.
January 28, 2009 | Journal Article
Rapid repeat pregnancies (RRPs) in adolescents are poorly understood, even though they are some of the pregnancies at highest risk for poor outcomes. This study showed that aggression was associated with higher risk of an RRP, but life history factors such as abuse and depression were not.
February 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study investigated the relationship between childbirth and five-year incidence of obesity.
November 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors study the extent to which upward socioeconomic mobility limits the probability that black and white women who spent their childhoods in or near poverty will give birth to a low-birthweight baby. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey ...
March 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Students who become pregnant in their teens are more likely to drop out of school, increasing the likelihood of persistent poverty and social disadvantage. This study examined the effect of school-based prenatal services on school attendance and dro ...
January 1, 2002 | Book
This chapter in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Anthology V, examines nurse visitation programs to disadvantaged first-time mothers during and after their pregnancies.
April 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Economic Opportunity Family Health Center, Inc. (EOFHC), of Miami, Fla., hired three consultants to assess its comprehensive residential program for crack-addicted mothers and their children. EOFHC has offered its program, which links primary health care with treatment for drug abuse, since 1987.
August 26, 2008 | Program Result Report
RWJF has provided 12 grants totaling $26.8 million to support development of David L. Olds' home-visiting model and its national replication as the Nurse-Family Partnership.
September 19, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Freedom Foundation of New Jersey Inc., West Orange, N.J., carried out three programs encouraging girls in inner-city Newark, N.J., to abstain from illegal drugs and sexual relations.