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Division of Reproductive
Health: Activities:
Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Program: Participating State |
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Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Program
Illinois
Past Assignee: From May 2002 until May 2005, there was an assignee
located in the Illinois Department of Human Services.
Past Fellow: From June 2004 until May 2005, there was a master’s
prepared fellow working with the assignee.
Projects/Impacts:
- Unintended pregnancy in Illinois: Prior to the state’s capacity to
analyze PRAMS data, unintended pregnancy at birth was estimated as 16%
based on 18 month intercontraceptional spacing of live births from the
vital statistics data. Using PRAMS data, Illinois’s unintended pregnancy
rate at birth, defined as births that were either unwanted or mistimed
pregnancies, is among the highest in the nation. Therefore, the findings
from the unintended pregnancy data analysis conducted by the CDC assignee
became the centerpiece for the MCH Block Grant application. In response,
the Family Planning program is using the demographic profile of high-risk
clients who are most likely to experience a pregnancy while taking contra
captives to better target effective methods, address side effects, and
stress consistency of use. Efforts are on the way to disseminate this
information to the many public health partners who are addressing
unintended pregnancy in the state.
- Breastfeeding initiation, duration, and predictors among WIC
Participants: The purpose of this project was to examine the effects of
trimester of enrollment in WIC, number of WIC prenatal visits; and
identified WIC Risk Factors to determine the best predictors of duration
of breastfeeding (> 6 months). Records from Cornerstone were selected if a
woman was on WIC during the year July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002. The
results indicated that the women least likely to breastfeed were younger
than 20 years of age, single and black. Highest initiation rates were
among women over 25 years of age, Hispanic ethnicity, and college
educated. Smokers were significantly less likely to breastfeed. Outcomes
of this project will be distributed to the Coordinator of WIC, and the
statewide Breastfeeding Coordinator. Possible development into a paper is
under consideration.
State related publications:
None to report
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Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology Program
Page last reviewed: 2/8/08
Page last modified: 3/6/06
Content source: Division
of Reproductive Health,
National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion |
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PRAMS
A surveillance project of CDC and state health departments. PRAMS collects state-specific,
population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences prior to, during
and immediately following pregnancy.
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