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Healthy Start Documents |
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These publications provide information about goals and objectives, guidelines, and data about the activities that improve the health of mothers and babies in Florida. They are in a format called Portable Document Format (PDF). You must get the Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) from Adobe to read the files.
To download the file to your computer, right-click on the file and select "Save Target As ...". The files are large and may take a while to display or download depending on the speed of your Internet connection.
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Healthy Start Prenatal Screening: Sensitivity and Positive Rate Compared for the Revised 2008 Prenatal Screening Criteria Versus the 1994 Prenatal Screening Criteria - [pdf; 24kb]
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Using the Birth Record to Develop a Screening Instrument for Infant
Mortality & Morbidity
[PDF; 1.06mb] |
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Review of Healthy Start Coalition Correspondence by Category -
[pdf; 293kb] |
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Maternal characteristics of women who are screened and referred to the Florida Healthy Start Prenatal Program based on factors other than prenatal screen risk score -
[pdf; 52.2kb]
Entry into the Healthy Start prenatal program can be based on risk score calculations using the Healthy Start Prenatal Risk Screen or by provider/self-referral for factors other than prenatal screen risk score. Referrals that are not based on a calculated risk score are called Referrals Based on Other Factors or BOOFs. This paper is an analysis of maternal characteristics of pregnant women that gain entry into Healthy Start through BOOF referrals, and a discussion of the implications of these findings concerning policy development, program planning and implementation. |
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Factors Associated with Offer Rates for Florida's Healthy Start Prenatal Screen -
[pdf; 32.8kb]
The Healthy Start Prenatal Screen was designed to identify women at risk for
delivering a low birth weight or preterm infant. The purpose of this
analysis is to categorize women by risk of a low birth weight or preterm
delivery and the probability of being offered a Healthy Start Prenatal
Screen. This analysis found that some women who had high risk of a low birth
weight or preterm delivery were not the most likely to be offered a Healthy
Start Prenatal Screen |
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Healthy Start Standards and Guidelines Chapters
All the revised chapters are posted for Healthy Start program staff to review how the chapters flow and coordinate together. These chapters will be posted for two weeks, until August 2, and then will be routed within the Department of Health for final approval and signature. Please note that the chapters are not in their final format at this time. Once formatted, a link will be sent out to program staff to access the formatted chapters.
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Healthy Start Standards and Guidelines
The Healthy Start Standards and Guidelines are standards, criteria and guidelines for providers of Healthy Start services. In 2001, the standards were revised and slide presentations were developed to assist in orientation to the guideline chapters. The guidelines include chapters on outreach, screening, care coordination, coding and quality assurances. Other topics include breastfeeding, nutrition, psychosocial counseling, and tobacco cessation. |
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Evaluation of the Healthy Start Prenatal Screen -[pdf; 91.4kb]
This paper analyzes the association between the risk factors on the Healthy Start Prenatal Screening instrument, and the outcomes of low birth weight and preterm birth. It compares the results from the 1998 birth cohort to the results of a similar analysis conducted using the 1993 birth cohort. Additionally, new risk factors were investigated for associations with low birth weight and preterm birth. |
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Healthy Start Prenatal Screen - Rates by Score - [pdf;
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In this paper the Healthy Start Prenatal screening risk scores are compared to rates of low birthweight (< 2500 grams) births and preterm (< 37 weeks gestational age) birth. It was found that higher risk scores are associated with higher rates of low birthweight and pretem birth.
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Healthy Start Infant Screen - Rates by Score - [pdf; 75.1]
In this paper the Healthy Start Infant screening risk scores are compared to rates of postneonatal death (death at age 28 to 364 days). It was found that higher risk scores are associated with higher rates of post neonatal death.
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