Maternal and Infant Health
	From Data to Action: CDC’s Public Health Surveillance for Women, Infants and Children This monograph provides a comprehensive description of CDC’s many surveillance and data system activities related to the health of women and children. Each chapter describes surveillance for a public health topic in terms of seven factors: (1) public health importance; (2) a brief history of the program;(3) CDC surveillance systems; (4) general surveillance findings; 5) methodologic and interpretive issues; (6) examples of uses of the surveillance data; and (7) future issues regarding the measured health event or surveillance system. The monograph focuses particularly on information from the National Survey of Family Growth, the National Hospital Discharge Survey, and the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey, with brief references to other national surveys. 400 pages; December 1994.	PDF 15.3MB
	Healthy Newborn Manual The Healthy Newborn Manual was developed for managers of programs providing maternal and child health services in developing nations. Information in the Manual will help managers design, implement and evaluate interventions to improve the health of newborns. December 2002.	Order Hardcopy
	Maternal and Child Health Journal special issue; Safe Motherhood in the United States, December 2002, Volume 6, (4) The journal outlines some of the major research, health care practice, and policy issues pertaining to safe motherhood. There are articles related to ectopic pregnancy, surveillance, racial disparities, depression, diabetic pregnant women, and maternal death.	Read Online
	Maternal and Child Health Journal special issue; The Social Context of Pregnancy for African-American Women, June 2001, 5(2) 67–140 The journal outlines results of qualitative and quantitative research to identify potential new risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes. Knowledge of the social context of African-American women's lives, in particular, along with improved understanding of the etiology of preterm birth can generate new perspectives for future research and new interventions to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in preterm delivery. The abstracts from the articles included in this special issue are posted.	Read Online
	Maternal and Child Health Journal: Violence and Reproductive Health, June 2000 Vol. 4, No. 2, 2000 This special edition of the Maternal and Child Health Journal grew out of a major conference, the National Conference on Violence and Reproductive Health: Science, Prevention, and Action. Source: Maternal and Child Health Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2000.	Read Online
	Safe Motherhood: Promoting Health for Women Before, During, and After Pregnancy 2008, At A Glance Safe motherhood begins before conception with proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. It continues with appropriate prenatal care, the prevention of complications when possible, and the early and effective treatment of any complications that do occur.	Read Online
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	Structure of Pregnancy-Related Mortality Surveillance in the United States Surveillance is an ongoing process of identifying pregnancy-related deaths, reviewing the factors that led to those deaths, analyzing and interpreting the information gathered, and acting on the results so as to reduce such deaths in the future.	PDF 137KB
	Addressing Violence Against Women, Results from a National Survey of Title X Family Planning Providers This document is the final report from a survey conducted by CDC's Division of Reproductive Health on the extent to which screening for violence occurs in Title X funded family planning clinics in the United States. It presents findings from the Family Planning Clinics and Intimate Partner Violence Study (FPC/IPV), and provides background information to help clinic staff interpret the data and determine how IPV can be addressed in their setting	PDF 434KB
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	Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy. A Guide for Clinicians Slide Show	Read Online
	Strategies to Reduce Pregnancy-Related Deaths This 2001 manual describes strategies for conducting pregnancy-related or maternal mortality surveillance in the United States. This surveillance is an on-going process of identifying pregnancy-related deaths, reviewing the factors that led to those deaths, analyzing and interpreting the information gathered, and acting on the results to reduce future deaths. The manual addresses issues and tasks that are important for health departments, clinicians, vital statistics personnel, pregnancy-related mortality review committees, legislators, and community groups, (approx. 214 pages.)	PDF 2.0MB
	Promoting Science Based Approaches to Teen Pregnancy Prevention Using Getting to Outcomes (PSBA-GTO) This program has developed a clear process for building the capacity of our national, regional, and state-level grantees. Grantees give tailored trainings and technical assistance to their local partners who deliver science-based teen pregnancy prevention programs at the community level. The process is called "Promoting Science Based Approaches to Teen Pregnancy Prevention Using Getting to Outcomes (PSBA-GTO)", and is described in this document. It integrates the guidance and tools for program planning, implementation, and evaluation and is designed for the field of teen pregnancy prevention.	PDF 379KB
	Risk of Ectopic Pregnancy after Tubal Sterilization Among 10,685 women studied, the risk of ectopic pregnancy within 10 years after sterilization was about 7 per 1,000 procedures. The likelihood of an ectopic pregnancy varied according to the method of sterilization and the age at which the women underwent the sterilization procedures.	Read Online
	The State Prenatal Smoking Databook, 1999 The databook provides national and state data on smoking during pregnancy in an easy to use format. It includes state-by-state statistics on prenatal smoking, smoking attributable infant deaths, and related health care costs; summarizes information on state MCH cessation programs; and provides information on state cigarette taxes, regulatory policies, and tobacco-related sources of funds for cessation.	Read Online
	Guidelines for Maternal Mortality Epidemiologic Surveillance These guidelines present the objectives of maternal mortality epidemiologic surveillance, discuss methods to identify and investigate maternal deaths, describe ways these data can be analyzed to produce useful information, and suggest actions to reduce maternal mortality. Based on April 1995 meeting sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization, the World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Perinatal Care at the CDC, and Mothercare. 50 pages; February 1998.	PDF 20MB English PDF 22MB Spanish
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