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From Data to Action: About |
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 Using Surveillance To Promote Public Health
Examples from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PUBLICATION YEAR 2002
About This
Booklet
This booklet highlights selected examples from the larger, more
comprehensive book entitled From Data to Action: Using Surveillance To
Promote Public Health, Examples from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment
Monitoring System (PRAMS). The complete book also chronicles the successful
translation of PRAMS data into public health action and contains more than
40 examples of states using surveillance data to effect changes in public
health programs and policies. All of the examples are based on data
collected from PRAMS, a population-based surveillance system of women who
have recently given birth to a live infant. These examples illustrate the
critical role that maternal and child health surveillance data can play in
effecting improvements in the content and delivery of services for women and
children.
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Page last reviewed: 3/24/06
Page last modified: 3/24/06
Content source: Division
of Reproductive Health,
National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion
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