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Source: PRAMS 2002 Surveillance Report 

 Reports
Alaska Maternal and Child Health Data Book 2004: PRAMS Edition. Anchorage, AK: Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Unit, Section of Women’s, Children’s and Family Health, Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Social Services, September 2005. http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/mchepi/mchdatabook/2004.htm*

Tobacco in the Great Land: A Portrait of Alaska’s Leading Cause of Death. State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology. February 2004. http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/pubs/tobaccofeb04.pdf*

Alaska Maternal and Child Health Data Book 2003. Anchorage, AK: Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Unit, Section of Maternal Child and Family Health, Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Social Services, June 2003. http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/mchepi/mchdatabook/2003.htm*

Fact Sheets
Pre-Pregnancy Physical Abuse. State of Alaska Epidemiology Bulletin. State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology. No. 26; November 7, 2005. http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/bulletins/docs/b2005_26.pdf*
[Pre-pregnancy physical abuse by demographics from the 2004 Data Book, 1996–2001, are cited.]

Tobacco Cessation: Kicking the Habit in Alaska (Part 5 of a 5-Part Series). State of Alaska Epidemiology Bulletin (Recommendations and Reports). State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology. Vol 9:No 1; July 15, 2005.
http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/bulletins/docs/rr2005_01.pdf*
[Cessation aids and barriers among postpartum women—data from 2003 Data Book are cited.]

Decline in the Prevalence of Neural Tube Birth Defects, Alaska, 1996-2004. State of Alaska Epidemiology Bulletin. State of Alaska, Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology. No.15; April 21, 2005.
http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/bulletins/docs/b2005_15.pdf*
[Knowledge of folic acid benefits by maternal race are cited.]

Journal articles
Gessner BD. Bed sharing with unimpaired parents is not an important risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Letter to the Editor). Pediatrics 2006;117:994–996.

Gessner BD, Ives GC, Perham-Hester KA. Association Between Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Prone Sleep Position, Bed Sharing, and Sleeping Outside an Infant Crib in Alaska. Pediatrics 2001;108(4):923–927.

Gessner BD, Perham-Hester KA. Experience of Violence among Teenage Mothers in Alaska. J Adol Health 1998;22:383–388. (Summary digest “Nearly 10% of Teenage Mothers Experience Violence while Pregnant” printed in Family Planning Perspectives 1999;31:106–107.) (Erratum to Table 1 printed in J Adol Health 1999; 24 (6):459.)

Perham-Hester KA, Gessner BD. Correlates of Drinking During the Third Trimester of Pregnancy in Alaska. Mat Child Health J 1997;1(3):165–172.

Selected Resources

Contact information
Kathy Perham-Hester (907) 269–3447
                                  
Alaska PRAMS Web site.

 

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Page last modified: 6/22/07
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