Limited Effect of Nurse Home Visits on Prenatal Care
The US is currently experiencing a maternal and neonatal health crisis. It is in this context that Rebecca Gourevitch and her team of coauthors investigate the effects of a prenatal nurse home visiting program for Medicaid-eligible pregnant people in South Carolina.
After conducting a randomized controlled trial of over 5,000 individuals, they find no statistically significant differences in outcomes like intensity of prenatal care use and gestational weight gain between pregnant people in the treatment group and those who were not enrolled in the program.
Gourevitch and coauthors suggest that structural and social determinants of health could
shape outcomes like use of prenatal care and other health care service utilization, and that these factors could be beyond the impact of nurse home visits.
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