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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the issue of smoking cessation and the use of an occupational therapist for smoking cessation in pregnant women. This paper considers the comparative costs for third party payers as they relate to the use of smoking cessation (vs. allowing women to simply smoke throughout pregancy). Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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have suggested that the decrease in smoking has been attributed to programs that emphasize the negative health impacts, many of which have been directed towards youth populations and women during
their childbearing years. While this number seems like a vast improvement, researchers have recognized that the decrease is due to more people quitting, not because few people start smoking
(Smoking Statistics, 2001). In fact, 80 percent of all smokers start smoking before the age of 21, and statistics suggest that efforts to curb the onset of smoking have
had limited outcomes. Many women between the ages of 18-25, women in their childbearing years, and especially minority women, continue to smoke at high rates, and this has determined
a substantial challenge for prenatal health care providers. The question for third party payers is not whether smoking prevention is an important part
of health care models, but whether there is a cost effective advantage to supporting the use of occupational therapists as mediators of smoking cessation programming for pregnant women. Researchers
have found, for example, that prater birth occurs in approximately 10 percent of all births that occur in the United States and is associated with 83 percent of all perinatal
deaths not caused by congenital anomalies in the United States (Wheeler, 1994). Links between low-birth weight births and premature births have been associated with smoking, but infant mortality
rates do not necessarily have a cost-value effect for third party payer systems. In order to demonstrate that third party payers should reimburse
for the use of occupational therapists to promote smoking cessation by working with individual women who are already smokers and already pregnant, it is necessary to show that smoking is
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