Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation joint project to enhance maternal and child health surveillance: focus on collaboration

Maternal and child health (MCH) surveillance data are important for understanding gaps in services and disparities in burden of disease, access to care, risk behaviors, and health outcomes. However, national and state surveillance systems are not always designed to gather sufficient data for calcula...

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Published inJournal of women's health (Larchmont, N.Y. 2002) Vol. 24; no. 4; p. 257
Main Authors Ahluwalia, Indu B, Harrison, Leslie, Simpson, Patrick, Wako, Etobssie, Helms Shealy, Kristen, Kapaya, Martha, Williams, Tanya, Williams, Letitia, D'Angelo, Denise
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.04.2015
Subjects
Adolescent
Child Welfare
Child, Preschool
Cooperative Behavior
Female
Health Behavior - ethnology
Humans
Infant
Infant Care
Infant, Newborn
Maternal Behavior - ethnology
Perinatal Care - statistics & numerical data
Population Surveillance
Postnatal Care - statistics & numerical data
Pregnancy
Prenatal Care - statistics & numerical data
Risk Assessment - methods
Risk-Taking
Socioeconomic Factors
United States
United States
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Summary:Maternal and child health (MCH) surveillance data are important for understanding gaps in services and disparities in burden of disease, access to care, risk behaviors, and health outcomes. However, national and state surveillance systems are not always designed to gather sufficient data for calculating reliable estimates of the health conditions among high-risk or underrepresented population subgroups living in smaller geographic areas. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) has conducted surveillance for over 25 years in collaboration with state and city health departments. In 2012, PRAMS embarked on a multiyear collaboration with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) to include oversampling of minority and low-income women in selected geographic areas in four states (Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, and New Mexico) where the WKKF funded extensive place-based initiatives are located. The PRAMS-WKKF collaboration has broad implications for promoting meaningful collaboration between public, private, local, state, and federal organizations to address MCH data gaps on disparities, and for improving the availability of information needed for MCH programs, policy makers, and women.
ISSN:1931-843X
DOI:10.1089/jwh.2015.5260