Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 4 , Pages 198-215 , July 2006

The content of prenatal care: Update 2005

  • Kimberly D. Gregory, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Director, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Division of Women’s Health Services Research. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
    • Associate Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, University of California in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
    • ,
  • Clark T. Johnson, BS, BFA

      Affiliations

    • Graduate Student, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • ,
  • Timothy R.B. Johnson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Bates Professor of Diseases of Women and Children and Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Professor of Women’s Studies and Research Professor for the Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Timothy R.B. Johnson, University of Michigan, Department of OB/Gyn, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, L4000 Women’s, Box 0276, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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  • Stephen S. Entman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Received 10 June 2005 ,Accepted 22 May 2006.

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