Risk and Reach

• Overview
• About the project
• Key findings
• Measures by county
• Risk measures
  • Child mobility
  • Foster care
  • Health care coverage
  • Immunizations
  • Infant mortality rate
  • Low birth weight
  • Maltreatment reports filed
  • Mothers without high school degree
  • Poverty
  • Prenatal care
  • Teen birth rate
  • Unemployed parent
• Composite risk
• Reach measures
  • Childcare assistance
  • Early childhood screening
  • Family home visiting
  • Head Start enrollment
  • MFIP
  • Mental health
  • Special education services
  • WIC
• Resources and references

Risk and Reach

Prenatal care

In 2012, an estimated 22 percent of births in Minnesota lacked adequate prenatal care, placing those infants at higher health risk. Inadequate prenatal care poses risks for both mother and child and has been linked to increased rates of infant morbidity and mortality. Nationally, American Indian women are less likely to receive adequate prenatal care.

Terms

Prenatal care

Ongoing appointments with a health care provider throughout pregnancy provide an opportunity to educate an expectant mother about anything that might alter the normal development of her fetus, including substance use. These appointments also facilitate early detection of potentially harmful complications in both mother and offspring, such as high blood pressure or fetal abnormalities.

Minnesota Early Childhood Risk and Reach was developed by the University of Minnesota (Harris Training Programs in the Center for Early Education and Development) and Wilder Research in partnership with the Minnesota Departments of Education, Health, and Human Services.