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Maternal Health Crisis: All Hands on Deck
Nic Encina Nic Encina

Maternal Health Crisis: All Hands on Deck

Regrettably, Roe v. Wade ruling is going to make things worse for many women, teens, and even adolescent girls. How women manage their reproductive plans is a highly personal decision, and in many cases it isn’t much of a decision to begin with, particularly when you realize that there are women with valid medical reasons that prevent them from having safe pregnancies in the first place.

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What is Inclusive Care™: Addressing Gaps (2/3)
Patrick Encina Patrick Encina

What is Inclusive Care™: Addressing Gaps (2/3)

Our life-experiences are typically an immersive set of conditions that create a particular memory. It’s usually not just that you were at the restaurant, OR with your best friend, OR that the music was playing, OR that you had great food, but rather a combination of things that lead to something that shapes you.

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What Is Inclusive Care™? Holistic Information (1/3)
Patrick Encina Patrick Encina

What Is Inclusive Care™? Holistic Information (1/3)

Imagine eating at your favorite restaurant: The scenery is familiar. The music buffers the background noise, the decor enhances your appetite, your drink complements the food, and your best friends are all engaged in a hilarious conversation.

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What Is Inclusive Care™?
Patrick Encina Patrick Encina

What Is Inclusive Care™?

Inclusive Care is a new way of looking at human health in its entirety. Inclusive Care includes all health determinants, applies evidence-based analytics, hyper-personalizes the information to the individual, and then makes it all available, and accessible, to everyone, regardless of race, education, or economics.

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Preeclampsia: What You Need To Know & Ask
Patrick Encina Patrick Encina

Preeclampsia: What You Need To Know & Ask

Preeclampsia is a condition that usually develops after approximately 20 weeks of pregnancy and is often defined by the following major symptoms: unprecedented high blood pressure and protein in urine.

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Mucus Plug: What You Need To Know & Ask
Patrick Encina Patrick Encina

Mucus Plug: What You Need To Know & Ask

In the early stages of pregnancy, a collection of mucus forms in the cervix - this is called a mucus plug. The purpose of a mucus plug is to block bacteria and infection from getting into your uterus and reaching your baby.

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Achieving Maternal Health Equity
Patrick Encina Patrick Encina

Achieving Maternal Health Equity

American maternal health is in a crisis. The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate out of any developed country in the world, despite having some of the highest spending in healthcare.

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Skin Care
Patrick Encina Patrick Encina

Skin Care

Like most things, my skin changed during my first pregnancy thanks to hormones, and lo and behold it changed again postpartum (thanks again hormones!).

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Nutrition
Patrick Encina Patrick Encina

Nutrition

My nutritional journey has been a lengthy one, I grew up eating a lot of McDonalds and Chinese Food takeout. In 2005, I began transitioning out of fast food and into healthy conscious eating.

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What’s Your Birth Plan?
Patrick Encina Patrick Encina

What’s Your Birth Plan?

Many of my patients ask me whether or not they should have a birth plan. The reality is my birth plan for all of my patients is the same: healthy mom, healthy baby, and vaginal delivery.

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About Modelo Health
Patrick Encina Patrick Encina

About Modelo Health

How would you imagine the creation of a pregnancy app to begin? If you guessed with a pregnancy, you’d be right. In late 2018, Nic and I began our pregnancy journey. I was ecstatic to finally be pregnant and eager to learn as much as I could before Valentina arrived!

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What’s Your M•Power Score?
Patrick Encina Patrick Encina

What’s Your M•Power Score?

Scientific evidence is increasingly showing that our health is the outcome of 5 interrelated determinants: (1) Clinical [11%], (2) Biological/Genetic [22%], (3) Environmental [7%], (4) Socioeconomic [24%], and (5) Behavioral [36%]. However, clinicians today focus primarily on clinical and biological influences to health outcomes.

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