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Annotation: This report on a MCH conference starts with four plenary speeches, then gives two-page profiles of 72 city MCH innovative, successful projects. The diversity of the projects described is indicated by the four projects that won awards. The Modesto, California Health Department got African-Americans, Hispanics, and three groups of Asian origin to cooperate in health and safety education and recreation for their community's children. In St. Petersburg, Florida, the Health Department organized sex education, life-style education, and job skills training for nonpregnant teenage girls. In Rochester, New York the MCH Department developed a contract with a local Medicaid managed care service to provide various social and prenatal services to high-risk pregnant women. In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the Health Department organized health education, breast and cervical cancer screening, and increased access to health care for low income women. The report includes names and addresses of all the conference speakers and invited participants. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, Child safety, Child welfare, Cultural factors, Infant mortality, Interagency cooperation, Leadership, Local MCH programs, MCH programs, Medicaid, Postnatal care, Prevention programs, Program descriptions, Program evaluation, Program planning, Public health programs, School readiness

Annotation: On September 12, 1991, health professionals and several members of Congress presented papers on health care for high-risk women and infants to the U.S. House of Representatives' Select Committee on Hunger. The 16 statements included in this report from the Congressional hearing cover such topics as removing barriers to prenatal care; the impact of medical insurance rates on the availability of providers; societal and attitudinal obstacles to prenatal care; and recommendations for alleviating obstacles.

Contact: U.S. Government Publishing Office, 732 North Capitol Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20401, Telephone: (202) 512-1800 Secondary Telephone: (866) 512-1800 Fax: (202) 512-2104 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.gpo.gov $3.00. Document Number: ISBN 0-16-037390-5.

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Keywords: Access to prenatal care, Child health, Congressional hearings, Maternal health, Postnatal care, Service coordination

Annotation: This report focuses on maternal nutrition and child health. Topics covered include maternal and infant mortality, specific nutritional factors in maternal and infant health (energy value and proximate composition, composition of milk, calcifying processes, vitamin D, vitamin A, vitamin C, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, iron, vitamin K, vitamin E, iodine), and prematernal, prenatal, and postnatal care. Statistical information is presented in figures and tables throughout the report. The report concludes with a bibliography.

Keywords: Child health, Folic acid, Food composition, Infant health, Infant mortality, Maternal health, Maternal mortality, Maternal nutrition, Minerals, Nutritional requirements, Postnatal care, Prenatal care, Vitamins