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The Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker program in low-income families.

Tonya Elkins, Maria Del Pilar Aguinaga, Caitlin Clinton-Selin, Barbara Clinton, Gerald Gotterer.   

Abstract

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker program (MIHOW) is a community-based intervention dedicated to enhancing birth outcomes and healthy child development. Trained neighborhood women provide home and group services to underserved families in rural and inner city communities. This report describes MIHOW's history and work in Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

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Year:  2013        PMID: 23974374     DOI: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0143

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Health Care Poor Underserved        ISSN: 1049-2089


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