title: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation joint project to enhance maternal and child health surveillance: focus on collaboration.
abstract: 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.
authors: 1 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, Division of Reproductive Health, National Centers for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, Georgia .
authors: Indu B
authors: IB
authors: Ahluwalia
authors: Leslie
authors: L
authors: Harrison
authors: Patrick
authors: P
authors: Simpson
authors: Etobssie
authors: E
authors: Wako
authors: Kristen
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authors: Helms Shealy
authors: Martha
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authors: Kapaya
authors: Tanya
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authors: Williams
authors: Letitia
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authors: Williams
authors: Denise
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authors: D'Angelo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007224:Infant Care; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008425:Maternal Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D018743:Perinatal Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011181:Postnatal Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States