Melody Cw Lu
Biographic Data
| ID | 266809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melody Cw Lu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melody Cw |
| FAMILY NAME | Lu |
| SIGNATURE | LU M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6740-9682 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Development and Unfolding of the Life Course Movement in the Field of Maternal and Child Health: An Oral History
The integration of life course theory into the MCH field signified a major shift towards addressing protective and social factors, which aligns with the field's historical emphasis on social justice and rights-based approaches, and parallels the broader public health movement towards social determinants of health and the need to address structural racism. The ongoing relevance of the life course approach in promoting reproductive justice and addr…
Developing an Anti-Racist Foundations Course in MCH for MPH Students
We hope that this description of our principles, along with examples of how they were put into practice, will be useful to MCH educators who seek to build anti-racist frameworks to guide MCH workforce development
Innovating Maternal and Child Health: Incentive Prizes to Improve Early Childhood Development
The Future of Maternal and Child Health
School Readiness among U.S. Children: Development of a Pilot Measure
The Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) to Reduce Infant Mortality: An Outcome Evaluation From the US South, 2011 to 2014
Objectives. To evaluate the impact of the Southern Public Health Regions’ (Regions IV and IV) Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) to Reduce Infant Mortality, supported by the US Health Resources and Services Administration. Methods. We examined pre–post change (2011–2014) for CoIIN strategies with available outcome data from vital records (early elective delivery, smoking) and the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (…
Applying Collaborative Learning and Quality Improvement to Public Health: Lessons from the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) to Reduce Infant Mortality
Father’s Role in Preconception Health
Appropriate Use of Progesterone to Prevent Preterm Birth: Approaches to Measurement for Driving Improvement
Multiple mobilities and entrepreneurial modalities among Chinese marriage migrants in Malaysia
This research focuses on the migration trajectories of mainland Chinese women marriage migrants in Malaysia. It finds that their migratory motivations and pathways reveal formerly overlooked mobility patterns that depart from the institutionally organized, commercially arranged, or kinship and social network-mediated migration patterns. The authors argue that the state's attempts to grow its regulatory capacity, the increasing 'cost' of legality …
Putting the “M” Back in the Maternal and Child Health Bureau: Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
A New Performance Measurement System for Maternal and Child Health in the United States
The new national performance measure framework for maternal and child health will allow States more flexibility to address their areas of greatest need, reduce their data reporting burden by having the Maternal and Child Health Bureau provide data for the National Outcome and Performance Measures, yet afford States the opportunity to develop measurable strategies to address their selected performance measures
Association Between Life Event Stressors and Low Birth Weight in African American and White Populations: Findings from the 2007 and 2010 Los Angeles Mommy and Baby (Lamb) Surveys
Transformation of the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant
This paper describes the transformation of the Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant. The Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration led a 21-month visioning process to engage input from MCH stakeholders and other national, state and local MCH leaders, families and other partners to improve, innovate, and transform the Title V MCH Services Block Grant. The process has helped inform …
Unintended Births Among Adult Immigrant and U.S.-Born Mexican Women in the Los Angeles Mommy and Baby (Lamb) Survey
A New Way Forward: Improving Maternal and Child Health in America
Toward a National Strategy on Infant Mortality
The authors focus on a reduction in infant mortality rates in the U.S. from 2006-2011. They state that the largest decline in infant mortality was seen among non-Hispanic Black women while the preterm birth rate declined by 10 percent from 2006-2012. They mention the U.S. is still ranked near the bottom in infant mortality and other birth outcomes among developed nations and has significant ethnic and socioeconomic disparities. They comment on a …
Ethnicity, citizenship and reproduction: Taiwanese wives making citizenship claims in Malaysia
This paper focuses on the experience of one specific group of Taiwanese women married to Chinese Malaysian men to examine the contestational process of bidding for citizenship status in an ethnicized polity. Positioned within a trajectory of transnational linkages between origin and host countries, they achieve success through making use of networking links with co-ethnic Chinese Malaysian women who are well-positioned within government bureaucra…
Lifecourse Health Development: Past, Present and Future
During the latter half of the twentieth century, an explosion of research elucidated a growing number of causes of disease and contributors to health. Biopsychosocial models that accounted for the wide range of factors influencing health began to replace outmoded and overly simplified biomedical models of disease causation. More recently, models of lifecourse health development (LCHD) have synthesized research from biological, behavioral and soci…
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Personal Capital During Pregnancy: Findings from the 2007 Los Angeles Mommy and Baby (Lamb) Study
The Contribution of Maternal Stress to Preterm Birth: Issues and Considerations
Addressing Policy Barriers to Paternal Involvement During Pregnancy
Prenatal Stress and Cerebral Palsy: A Nationwide Cohort Study in Denmark
OBJECTIVES: Exposure to prenatal stress may affect neurodevelopment of the fetus, but whether this exposure increases the risk of cerebral palsy (CP) later in life is unknown. We aimed to examine the association between maternal bereavement during the prenatal time period and CP in childhood. METHODS: We conducted a nationwide cohort study by linking information from nationwide registers. All 1,501,894 singletons born in Denmark from 1979 to 2004…
Women's autonomy and pregnancy care in rural India: A contextual analysis
Homeless Women: Who is Really at Risk for Unintended Pregnancy
Women's autonomy and pregnancy care in rural India: A contextual analysis
Ethnicity, citizenship and reproduction: Taiwanese wives making citizenship claims in Malaysia
This paper focuses on the experience of one specific group of Taiwanese women married to Chinese Malaysian men to examine the contestational process of bidding for citizenship status in an ethnicized polity. Positioned within a trajectory of transnational linkages between origin and host countries, they achieve success through making use of networking links with co-ethnic Chinese Malaysian women who are well-positioned within government bureaucra…
School Readiness among U.S. Children: Development of a Pilot Measure
Multiple mobilities and entrepreneurial modalities among Chinese marriage migrants in Malaysia
This research focuses on the migration trajectories of mainland Chinese women marriage migrants in Malaysia. It finds that their migratory motivations and pathways reveal formerly overlooked mobility patterns that depart from the institutionally organized, commercially arranged, or kinship and social network-mediated migration patterns. The authors argue that the state's attempts to grow its regulatory capacity, the increasing 'cost' of legality …
Toward a National Strategy on Infant Mortality
The authors focus on a reduction in infant mortality rates in the U.S. from 2006-2011. They state that the largest decline in infant mortality was seen among non-Hispanic Black women while the preterm birth rate declined by 10 percent from 2006-2012. They mention the U.S. is still ranked near the bottom in infant mortality and other birth outcomes among developed nations and has significant ethnic and socioeconomic disparities. They comment on a …
Learning from Success and Failure in Psychosocial Intervention: An Evaluation of Low Birth Weight Prevention Trials
The object of the study was to evaluate the research designs of social support interventions for prevention of low birth weight (LBW). A literature search of published articles identified 12 randomized controlled trials of social support to prevent LBW birth. These were evaluated using specific methodological criteria for effective intervention research. Only one study showed a significant reduction in LBW. However, none of the studies met all of…
Chronically Homeless Women's Perceived Deterrents to Contraception
Homeless women report substantial deterrents that reduce their contraceptive use. The multiplicity and heterogeneity of their perceived deterrents suggest a need for reproductive health services that are more integrated and culturally competent than those currently offered
Chronically Homeless Women's Perceived Deterrents to Contraception
Homeless women report substantial deterrents that reduce their contraceptive use. The multiplicity and heterogeneity of their perceived deterrents suggest a need for reproductive health services that are more integrated and culturally competent than those currently offered
Childbirth Education Classes: Sociodemographic Disparities in Attendance and the Association of Attendance with Breastfeeding Initiation
Variations in the Incidence of Postpartum Hemorrhage Across Hospitals in California
A Framework for the Development of MaternalQuality of Care Indicators
Learning from Success and Failure in Psychosocial Intervention: An Evaluation of Low Birth Weight Prevention Trials
The object of the study was to evaluate the research designs of social support interventions for prevention of low birth weight (LBW). A literature search of published articles identified 12 randomized controlled trials of social support to prevent LBW birth. These were evaluated using specific methodological criteria for effective intervention research. Only one study showed a significant reduction in LBW. However, none of the studies met all of…
Prenatal Programming of Childhood Overweight and Obesity
Preconception Care Between Pregnancies: The Content of Internatal Care
For more than two decades, prenatal care has been a cornerstone of our nation's strategy for improving pregnancy outcomes. In recent years, however, a growing recognition of the limits of prenatal care and the importance of maternal health before pregnancy has drawn increasing attention to preconception and internatal care. Internatal care refers to a package of healthcare and ancillary services provided to a woman and her family from the birth o…
Homeless Women: Who is Really at Risk for Unintended Pregnancy
Prenatal Stress and Cerebral Palsy: A Nationwide Cohort Study in Denmark
OBJECTIVES: Exposure to prenatal stress may affect neurodevelopment of the fetus, but whether this exposure increases the risk of cerebral palsy (CP) later in life is unknown. We aimed to examine the association between maternal bereavement during the prenatal time period and CP in childhood. METHODS: We conducted a nationwide cohort study by linking information from nationwide registers. All 1,501,894 singletons born in Denmark from 1979 to 2004…
Women's autonomy and pregnancy care in rural India: A contextual analysis
The Contribution of Maternal Stress to Preterm Birth: Issues and Considerations
Addressing Policy Barriers to Paternal Involvement During Pregnancy
Lifecourse Health Development: Past, Present and Future
During the latter half of the twentieth century, an explosion of research elucidated a growing number of causes of disease and contributors to health. Biopsychosocial models that accounted for the wide range of factors influencing health began to replace outmoded and overly simplified biomedical models of disease causation. More recently, models of lifecourse health development (LCHD) have synthesized research from biological, behavioral and soci…
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Personal Capital During Pregnancy: Findings from the 2007 Los Angeles Mommy and Baby (Lamb) Study
Unintended Births Among Adult Immigrant and U.S.-Born Mexican Women in the Los Angeles Mommy and Baby (Lamb) Survey
A New Way Forward: Improving Maternal and Child Health in America
Toward a National Strategy on Infant Mortality
The authors focus on a reduction in infant mortality rates in the U.S. from 2006-2011. They state that the largest decline in infant mortality was seen among non-Hispanic Black women while the preterm birth rate declined by 10 percent from 2006-2012. They mention the U.S. is still ranked near the bottom in infant mortality and other birth outcomes among developed nations and has significant ethnic and socioeconomic disparities. They comment on a …
Ethnicity, citizenship and reproduction: Taiwanese wives making citizenship claims in Malaysia
This paper focuses on the experience of one specific group of Taiwanese women married to Chinese Malaysian men to examine the contestational process of bidding for citizenship status in an ethnicized polity. Positioned within a trajectory of transnational linkages between origin and host countries, they achieve success through making use of networking links with co-ethnic Chinese Malaysian women who are well-positioned within government bureaucra…
Putting the “M” Back in the Maternal and Child Health Bureau: Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity
A New Performance Measurement System for Maternal and Child Health in the United States
The new national performance measure framework for maternal and child health will allow States more flexibility to address their areas of greatest need, reduce their data reporting burden by having the Maternal and Child Health Bureau provide data for the National Outcome and Performance Measures, yet afford States the opportunity to develop measurable strategies to address their selected performance measures
Association Between Life Event Stressors and Low Birth Weight in African American and White Populations: Findings from the 2007 and 2010 Los Angeles Mommy and Baby (Lamb) Surveys
Transformation of the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant
This paper describes the transformation of the Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant. The Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration led a 21-month visioning process to engage input from MCH stakeholders and other national, state and local MCH leaders, families and other partners to improve, innovate, and transform the Title V MCH Services Block Grant. The process has helped inform …
Multiple mobilities and entrepreneurial modalities among Chinese marriage migrants in Malaysia
This research focuses on the migration trajectories of mainland Chinese women marriage migrants in Malaysia. It finds that their migratory motivations and pathways reveal formerly overlooked mobility patterns that depart from the institutionally organized, commercially arranged, or kinship and social network-mediated migration patterns. The authors argue that the state's attempts to grow its regulatory capacity, the increasing 'cost' of legality …
Applying Collaborative Learning and Quality Improvement to Public Health: Lessons from the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) to Reduce Infant Mortality
Father’s Role in Preconception Health
Medicine (30 works) · Public health (22 works) · Environmental health (21 works) · Nursing (20 works) · Population (15 works) · Pregnancy (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Child and Adolescent Health (8 works) · Demography (8 works) · Economic growth (8 works)