Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, implementation and administration of a community-based system of comprehensive perinatal care for eligible women and infants. Existing law states the goals of the community-based comprehensive perinatal health care system as decreasing and maintaining the decreased level of perinatal, maternal, and infant mortality and morbidity and supporting methods of providing comprehensive prenatal care that prevent prematurity and the incidence of low birth weight.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those goals.