title: Access to care: a home visitation program that links public health nurses, physicians, mothers, and babies.
abstract: The purpose of the project here was to develop and test interventions designed to improve access to care and health outcomes for Medicaid-eligible infants during their first 6 months of life. The goal of the intervention was to overcome personal and structural barriers to care by combining the efforts of county health departments and private physicians' offices in 2 counties in North Carolina. The project combined home visits and an office intervention.
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7400, USA.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stevens
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Margolis
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Harlan
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bordley
mesh_terms: D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008484:Medicaid; D009657:North Carolina; D009819:Office Visits; D011181:Postnatal Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States