No Bumps In The Road Literature Review

For multiple decades pregnant women, mostly women of color, who are living in Baltimore, Maryland have not received proper prenatal care. Although a significant number of pregnant women within the city typically initiate prenatal visits within the first trimester, there are still many of those women who are receiving late or no care. It has been noted that lack of transportation is one of the causes for women initiating prenatal care visits at later stages of pregnancy or not at all. Therefore, No Bumps in the Road (NBR) would like to investigate the predicted high impact that providing free of cost transportation to low income pregnant women would have on the prenatal care initiation patterns in Baltimore, Maryland. Would it not be amazing if there was a way to help women allude one major bump in the road to having nearly perfect and healthy pregnancies?
Extensive review of literature has been conducted in order to ensure that this is an area of need for low income pregnant women. We would like to begin the No Bumps in the Road program with 100 participants over the course of one year. We will determine appropriate growth amounts at the end of the year by assessing spending amounts for that year. If all funds for the year have not been spent, we will evaluate the causes for such results and address them in recruitment and expectation efforts in the following year. Therefore, we may not …show more content…
However, this is not fully sufficient for the amount and quality of service that we would like to provide to pregnant women living in Baltimore, Maryland. Therefore, we are asking United Way of Central Maryland to invest in the basic, yet vital health need of pregnant women. We would like to submit a proposal to United Way of Central Maryland for $10,000 of operating support for Uber ride fare subsidy. It is our hope that our proposal will be