 Example:
Monitoring the Healthy People 2010 Objectives
An important use of the PNSS data is monitoring the
Healthy
People 2010 objectives. These objectives are
designed to serve as a goal for monitoring progress towards improving the health
status of the nation. Examples of those that are relevant to the health of
pregnant women and their infants that can be monitored by PNSS include the
following objectives:*
- Reduce the pregnancies among adolescent females (15 to 17 years) to
46 pregnancies per 1,000. (9-7)
- Increase the proportion of pregnant women who receive
prenatal care in the first trimester to 90 percent. (16-6)
- Reduction of low birthweight to 5 percent and very low birthweight to 0.9 percent. (16-10)
- Reduce preterm births to 7.6 percent. (16-11)
- Increase the proportion of women who gain the recommended
weight during pregnancy. (Developmental 16-12)
- Increase the proportion of pregnancies begun with an optimum
folic acid level to 80 percent. (16-16)
- Increase the proportion of women who breastfeed their infants during
the early postpartum period to 75 percent. (16-19)
- Reduce the prevalence of anemia in low-income pregnant females in
their third trimester to 20 percent. (19-13)
- Reduce the prevalence of iron deficiency anemia in pregnant females.
(Developmental 19-14)
* The objective number
follows the objective. |
