Two methods of estimating the target population for public maternity services programs. |
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| Authors: | S M Payne and D M Strobino |
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| Abstract: | One difficulty in estimating the target population for public health programs is identifying a current and appropriate indicator of the low-income population. Using data from Mississippi and Maryland, we determined that educational attainment of women giving birth is a feasible substitute for census data in estimating the low-income maternity population, and that vital statistics data offer several advantages for estimating the maternity services target population over census data. |
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