Prenatal Care

Good prenatal care is strongly associated with healthy birth weight and healthy babies.  Conversely, delayed or insufficient prenatal care can be associated with low birth weight and other health risks for infants.  Spartanburg County data is almost equal to the state average for women who received less than adequate prenatal care in 2007.  In 2007, over one third of white women in Spartanburg (33.1%) received less than adequate prenatal care, and 44.2% of non-white women received less than adequate prenatal care.  In 2007, 40 Spartanburg County women who gave birth had no prenatal care at all.

Of peer counties, Spartanburg and Charleston demonstrate increases from 2005 to 2007 in lack of first trimester prenatal care and less than adequate prenatal care.  The state aggregate also demonstrated an increase in both categories.

Prenatal Care, 2007 and {2005}, Percent and Number of Pregnant Women

 

No prenatal care at all

No prenatal care first 3 months

Less than adequate prenatal care

Spartanburg

{8.2% / 28}

32% / 1,212

{29.2% / 996}

36.1%  1,369

{33.2% / 1,132}

Greenville

34

{1.7% /100}

30.7% / 2,030

{31.1% / 1,826}

36.1% / 2,385

{36.9% / 2,171}

Richland

54

{1.4% / 66}

29% / 1,473

{32.1% / 1,540}

31.1%  / 1,578

{34.1% / 1,633}

Charleston

86

{1.0 % / 49}

30.7% / 1,593

{26.4% / 1,268}

37.3%  1,938

{34.8% / 1,671}

S.C. Aggregate

802

{1.3% / 765}

31.4%  / 19,774

{29.6% / 17,038}

36.3%  22,825

{35.3% / 20,291}

 

As in 2005, Spartanburg County demonstrates the greatest percentage of Black / other race women receiving less than adequate prenatal care in 2007.  In all counties and the state, higher percentages of Black / other race women receive less adequate prenatal care than white women.

 

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