Improvements in prenatal health.
Nurse-Family Partnership addresses the national priority of increasing healthy pregnancies and deliveries.
The results of three randomized, controlled trials demonstrate that Nurse-Family Partnership delivers against its three primary goals of better pregnancy outcomes, improved child health and development, and increased economic self-sufficiency. Beginning with better pregnancy outcomes, Nurse-Family Partnership makes a measurable impact on the lives of children, families, and the communities in which they live.
Among the outcomes that have been observed in at least one of the trials of the program are improved pregnancy outcomes, such as:
- 79-percent reduction in pre-term delivery for women who smoke
- 35-percent fewer hypertensive disorders during pregnancy
- Greater intervals between first and subsequent pregnancies, including:
- A 28-month greater interval between the pregnancies of the first and second child (among low-income, unmarried group)
- 31-percent fewer closely spaced pregnancies (less than six months)
- 23-percent reduction in subsequent pregnancies by child age two
"Nurse-Family Partnership, you should know, is a proven success. Last year's heartening decline in African American and Puerto Rican infant mortality reported in the recent MMR – was attributable in part to the success of the pilot Nurse-Family Partnership program we launched in several communities."
– Mayor of New York Michael R. Bloomberg, "Recommendations of the Mayor’s Commission for Economic Opportunity"
Sept. 18, 2006