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Using Surveillance To Promote Public Health
Examples from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PUBLICATION YEAR 2002
PRAMS:
Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is part of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiative to reduce infant
mortality and low birth weight. It is an ongoing, state-specific,
population-based surveillance system designed to collect information on
self-reported maternal behaviors and experiences that occur before, during,
and shortly after pregnancy.
PRAMS generates statewide estimates that can be used as measures of
perinatal health among women who recently delivered a live infant. Each
participating state uses a standardized data collection method developed by
CDC. PRAMS staff in each state collect data through statewide mailings and
follow up with nonrespondents by telephone. Because PRAMS data are state and
population based, findings are generalizable to an entire state’s population
of women who have delivered a live-born infant.
Since PRAMS began in 1987 with five states and the District of Columbia,
it has grown tremendously. As of 2002, 32 states and the city of New York
have PRAMS projects through cooperative agreements with CDC. PRAMS
surveillance now covers approximately two-thirds of all births in the United
States.
Alabama
Alaska
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii |
Illinois
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
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Nebraska
New
Jersey
New Mexico
New York
New York City
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
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Oregon
Texas
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Utah
Vermont
Washington
West Virginia |
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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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