Women's Health Issues
Volume 16, Issue 6 , Pages 313-322 , November 2006

Health service use and outcomes among disabled Medicaid pregnant women

  • Norma I. Gavin, PhD

      Affiliations

    • RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Norma I. Gavin, PhD, RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194.
    • ,
  • M. Beth Benedict, JD, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, Maryland
    • ,
  • E. Kathleen Adams, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Received 24 February 2006 ,Accepted 3 October 2006.

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 Funded through contract number 500-96-0018 with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Texas claims and birth certificate data were provided by the Texas Department of Health and the Health Resources and Services Administration. The Georgia birth certificate data and linkage to the claims data were provided by the Georgia Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Manuscript preparation was funded by RTI International.

PII: S1049-3867(06)00113-7

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2006.10.003

Women's Health Issues
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