Improving the Accessibility and Quality of Health Care for Women and Infants
To enhance pre-pregnancy and prenatal risk assessment, pregnancy case management and education services for high-risk women.
To increase - through education and public awareness - participation in state or local maternal and child health programs including, but not limited to, WIC and Medicaid for pre-pregnancy and prenatal care.
To enhance outreach worker training and support programs that improve the use of prenatal care among high risk women.
Increasing availability of prevention services.
To increase education, screening and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases in women.
To increase prenatal health education and information/referral services available to tobacco, alcohol, or other drug abusing pregnant women.
To enhance the availability, quality and utilization of genetics services.
To improve the ability of health care providers to identify and provide patient services related to preventable birth defects, including, but not limited to, neural tube defects and fetal alcohol syndrome.
Folic acid education.
To increase the number/proportion of women of childbearing age in a targeted geographic area who take the recommended amount (400 mcg) of synthetic folic acid every day.
To educate women of childbearing age about the importance of folic acid in preventing neural tube defects.
