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Show Prenatal Care Early prenatal care can reduce the incidence of low birth weight infants and infant mortality. Because access to prenatal care determines many other health issues, prenatal care is an access issue. Utah has a higher percentage of women receiving prenatal care in the first trimester than does the nation. Utah also has a lower percentage of women who are not receiving prenatal care at all or not until the third trimester. These percentages for Utah have remained somewhat consistent for 20 years. U.S. percentages are following similar trends, but with more fluctuation. Table 102. Sources: Utah 1995-1996: Utah's Vital Statistics: Births and Deaths (1996). U.S. 1994: Statistical Abstract of United States (1997) page 74, no. 88. Utah 1992-1993: Utah Department of Health Bureau of Vital Records Births bv Age of Mother and Birthweight of Infant (1995). Unpublished report. Utah 1991: Utah Children (1993). Key Facts About Children in Utah. Salt Lake City:, p. 6. Utah 1990: Utah Children (1992). Key Facts About Children in Utah. Salt Lake City:, p. 6. Utah 1970, 1982-1989: Utah Department of Health, Division of Health Care Resources. Utah's Vital Statistics Annual Report. Salt Lake City:. U.S. 1991-1992: National Center for Health Statistics. Advance Report of Final Natality Statistics. Monthly Vital Statistics Reports: 42(3). 43(51 Hyattsville, MD:. U.S. 1990: National Center For Health Statistics (1993, Feb. 25). Monthly Vital Statistics Report. Salt Lake City:. U.S. 1970, 1982-1989: United States Bureau of the Census (1992). Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1992 (112th ed.). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, p. 68. Figure 56___________________________________ Table 102. Prenatal Care* Utah 3rd U.S. 3rd Utah 1st U.S. 1st Trimester Trimester Year Trimester Trimester or None or None 1970 81.9 68.0 3.3 7.9 1982 81.8 76.1 3.0 5.5 1983 82.2 76.2 2.8 5.6 1984 82.0 76.5 3.0 5.6 1985 81.8 76.2 3.0 5.7 1986 82.1 75.9 3.0 6.0 1987 82.4 76.0 3.1 6.1 1988 82.6 75.9 2.7 6.1 1989 84.2 75.5 2.7 6.4 1990 84.2 74.2 3.0 6.0 1991 83.3 74.6 3.0 5.6 1992 84.0 76.1 2.3 5.1 1993 85.1 77.7 2.4 4.8 1994 85.1 80.2 2.8 4.4 1995 84.3 - 3.0 - 1996 83.8 3.3 *Percentage calculations do not include those cases for which it is not reported whether or when there was prenatal care. Percentage of Babies Born to Mothers with Prenatal Care 100 x Percentage 50 - - 0-n - i i i i i i i 1970 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 - Utah 1st trimester..... -U.S. 1st trimester 134 |
