Infant Receipt of Health Care Services during the 2016-2017 Zika Virus Outbreak in Puerto Rico.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the receipt of health care services among live-born infants of women with and without evidence of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection while pregnant during the 2016-2017 ZIKV outbreak in Puerto Rico.

Methods

We used data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System-Zika Postpartum Emergency Response study telephone surveys to examine maternal reports of the receipt of health care services by infants born in Puerto Rico from August through December 2016 and November through December 2017. Evidence of ZIKV infection was ascertained from the infant's birth certificate or was self-reported in the survey.

Results

Fourteen percent of women in 2016 and 9% in 2017 had evidence of ZIKV infection during pregnancy. Most infants of women with evidence of ZIKV

SUBMITTER: D'Angelo D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10030161 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature