[Reorientation of the Austrian parent-child preventive care programme. Part V: Preterm birth]
Schumacher I, Piso B
Record ID 32012000296
German
Authors' objectives:
During the first year of our project on the ´reorientation of the Austrian parent-child preventive care programme´, we identified preterm birth as highly relevant health topic. The aim of part V of this project was to identify suitable primary and secondary preventive measures as well as screening methods to reduce the number of preterm births.
Authors' recommendations:
Before implementing these "promising" measures and those which showed a more distinctive positive effect (smoking cessation programmes and prophylactic progesterone for women with a previous preterm birth) into a parent-child preventive care program, it will be necessary to take the strengths of association between risk or protective factors with preterm birth, and the prevalence of these factors in the population into account. Finally, potential "structural" causes of the (compared to other European countries) high Austrian preterm birth rate should be considered (e.g. heterogeneous definitions, influences of assisted reproductive technologies or caesarean sections).
Details
Project Status:
Completed
Year Published:
2012
URL for published report:
http://eprints.hta.lbg.ac.at/939/1/HTA-Projektbericht_Nr.50.pdf
URL for additional information:
http://eprints.hta.lbg.ac.at/939/
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
Austria
MeSH Terms
- Premature Birth
Contact
Organisation Name:
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment
Contact Address:
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for fuer Health Technology Assessment (LBI-HTA), Garnisongasse 7/rechte Stiege Mezzanin (Top 20), 1090 Vienna, Austria. Tel: +43 1 236 8119 - 0 Fax: +43 1 236 8119 - 99
Contact Name:
tarquin.mittermayr@aihta.at
Contact Email:
office@aihta.at
Copyright:
Ludwig Boltzmann Institut fuer Health Technology Assessment (LBI-HTA)
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