title: Receipt of well-baby care--Maine, 1988-1992.
abstract: Routine well-baby care (i.e., nonillness-related visits to a health-care professional during infancy) provides important opportunities to promote health in infants through timely receipt of recommended vaccinations, detection and treatment of diseases, and identification of potential developmental or psychosocial disorders.* In Maine, although well-baby services are provided as a component of the state's maternal and child health programs, the extent to which parents in Maine use public and private sources of such services and adhere to American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines has not been well characterized. This report uses data from Maine's Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) to characterize the levels of well-baby care in Maine during 1988-1992.
mesh_terms: D006293:Health Promotion / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008281:Maine; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors