Effects of premarital healthcare services on birth defects:A case study of Guangxi province / 中国卫生政策研究

ABSTRACT

Objective:To discuss the effects of premarital health care services on birth defects in order to pro-vide some references for promoting the premarital policy .Methods: The rate of premarital healthcare and the inci-dence of birth defects and other relevant data during the period from 2000 to 2014 were collected in Guangxi province using SPSS18 .0 statistical software to carry out descriptive analysis , rank correlation analysis and time series analysis of the relevant collected data .Results: With the increase in premarital healthcare rate , the incidence of birth de-fects, neural tube defects , cleft lip and fetal edema syndrome decreased .Having a premarital subsequent effect , the higher the premarital healthcare rate , the lower of the incidence of the congenital heart disease and neural tube de-fects in the next year .Conclusion:The premarital healthcare services play an important role in reduction of birth de-fects and people's health quality improvement .As a suggestion , more attention should be paid to premarital health-care services and strengthen them , intended to improve people's health and reduce birth defects incidence .