The Navajo Birth Cohort Study — Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes

Helping Your Baby and Future Generations To Grow in Beauty

The primary goal of this study is to better understand the relationship between uranium exposures, birth outcomes, and children’s development on Navajo Nation.

ECHO will expand the focus of the NBCS to examine many aspects of the environment including social, behavioral, chemical, and physical components, and to look at risks and protective factors on Navajo in comparison to other tribal and nontribal communities.
Evaluation of environment and development will occur at four points in the baby’s first year, and then annually until age 5.

For those already participating in the NBCS, additional assessments will occur annually until age 5.

Benefits of Participation

Referral for early intervention should any concerns be identified
Home environmental assessment will identify any serious concerns
Early assessment and education on environmental risks to your child
Help Navajo Nation to understand development of Navajo children to inform policies on necessary services
Help clinical care providers, obstetricians, and pediatricians to understand any unique needs for services for Navajo children

What will you have to do?

Deliver your baby at a participating IHS or PL-638 hospital
Allow us to review your medical record and that of your child
Complete surveys while you are pregnant, several times in the year following your baby’s birth, and annually after baby is 1 year old
Provide blood and urine samples for us to determine exposures and nutritional status

NBCS ECHO will begin recruitment of new participants in summer of 2017.

If you have already been a participant in the NBCS, You may be contacted to determine if you are interested in continuing participation with annual assessments until age 5.

Who is eligible to participate?

Mothers originally enrolled in the NBCS who are interested in continuing with their babies to age 5 AND

Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility
Gallup Indian Medical Center
Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation

For More Information

Please call 1-877-545-6775 for more information and to find out how you can participate.

A Cooperative Agreement between NIH (#1UG3OD023344) and the University of New Mexico Community Environmental Health Program

In Partnership with

Navajo Nation Department of Health
Southwest Research and Information Center
University of New Mexico Center for Development and Disability
University of California, San Francisco

CONTACT US

Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation
Outpatient Primary Care Center
3rd Floor - Women's Clinic

Navajo Birth Cohort Study
Clinical Liaison for TCRHCC

Phone: 1-866-976-5941

schedule an appointment

1-866-976-5941

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