Change Indicator

Births with early prenatal care in West Virginia

Births with early prenatal care

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Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.

Definition and Source

PROVIDER

Definition

The percentage of live births that are to women who began prenatal care in the first three months of their pregnancy.

Data Source

(1990, 2003) WV Department of Health and Human Resources, Bureau of Public Health, Office of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Health Statistics Center.

Notes

Live births to women who did not report the month in which prenatal care was started were excluded from the computation. This background fact does not tell us anything about the quality, frequency or consistency of care that the mother received during this time.

Last Updated

February 2009