title: [Contributions and experiences. Epidemiology and culture of health care in pregnancy in an Italian urban community during the '80s].
abstract: The quality of care of pregnant women, and more specifically the extension and the criteria of use of drugs, have been the object of an epidemiological study planned and conducted by a group of Health Visitors who have been able to include in their routine "administrative" work related to the control of women who delivered a baby within the previous 6 months a formal protocol of evaluative epidemiology. The results which have been obtained and are reported and commented in this paper may be seen not only as a piece of original information in a field where little is known, and as a baseline material for educational intervention, but also as an interesting example of how nursing personnel may have an active and "alternative" role in the fulfillment of their job.
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing; D004358:Drug Therapy; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008427:Maternal Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care; D014505:Urban Population
vernacular_title: Contributi ed esperienze. Epidemiologia e cultura dell'assistenza sanitaria in gravidanza in una realtà urbana italiana degli anni '80.