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Section V Recommendations
Pages 473-476

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From page 473...
... Consistent with the Roadmap initiative of the National Institutes of Health, these activities should include the following: • Basic, translational, and clinical research involving the clinical, basic, and behavioral and social science disciplines is needed. This research should include but not be limited to investigations covered by recommendations pertaining to the etiologies of preterm birth; the psychosocial, behavioral, sociodemographic, and environmental toxicant exposure-related risk factors associated with preterm birth; the disparities in the rates of preterm birth by race and ethnicity; the identification and treatment of women at risk of preterm labor; quality of health care provided to infants born preterm; and health services research.
From page 474...
... Recommendation V-4: Study the effects of public programs and policies on preterm birth. The National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and private founda tions should conduct and/or support research on the role of social programs and policies on the occurrence of preterm birth and the health of children born preterm.
From page 475...
... 475 SECTION V RECOMMENDATIONS ment all of the previous recommendations. Research in the areas of better defining the problem of preterm birth, clinical investigations, and etiologic and epidemiologic investigations is critical to conduct before policy makers can create policies that will successfully ad dress this problem.


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