What Works to Prevent Pregnancies and Births:
Nurse Home Visit Programs

Some nurse home visitation programs have found a significant reduction in subsequent pregnancies to poor unmarried women (Olds et al., 1999). Nurse Home Visitation Programs enlist trained nurses to visit expectant mothers in their homes both before their baby is born and after birth in order to provide information and support that would promote better maternal and child outcomes. In two areas assessed, Elmira, New York and Memphis, Tennessee, low-income unmarried mothers who received nurse home visits had fewer repeat pregnancies than mothers who did not receive home visits (Olds et al., 1999). One welfare program, the Teenage Welfare Demonstration Program, also includes a Nurse Home Visit component and is associated with reducing subsequent fertility among teens in a quasi-experimental design (Murray in Blank & Haskins, 2001).


 
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