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Prenatal care expansion increased gestational diabetes screenings, child vaccination rates, and prenatal visits, and reduced infant mortality and extremely low birth weights.
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Expansion of prenatal care to undocumented immigrants led to increases in adequate care among all and high-risk pregnancies, as well as increased diagnosis of gestational diabetes, pre-existing diabetes mellitus, hypertension, history of preterm birth, and poor fetal growth.
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The health of citizen children born to undocumented immigrants is closely tied to local, state, and federal immigration policies.
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With approximately 1 in 15 US children born to undocumented immigrant parents, interventions expanding access to prenatal care have the potential to make a big difference to maternal and child health.
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Expanding prenatal care to unauthorized immigrant women resulted in more prenatal visits, receipt of adequate prenatal care, and increases in diabetes screenings and ultrasonograms. Children were also more likely to attend well child visits and get vaccinations.
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Unauthorized immigrants are mostly left out of the Affordable Care Act and are often unable to access or afford medical care. Expanding prenatal care to unauthorized immigrants positively impacts the health of both the mothers and their citizen children.
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When states offer prenatal care coverage to unauthorized immigrants women get the care they need and babies get healthier.
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