Data to Action

COVID-19 Community Levels Update, March 24, 2023: The CDC has listed all eight Connecticut counties in the Low/Green category as part of its weekly Community Levels update. People who are at a high risk for severe illness should consider additional measures to minimize their exposure to COVID-19 and respiratory illnesses. Visit the CDC COVID-19 Community Levels Map for updates.

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PRAMS Data

How Data are Used

Information collected by PRAMS is used to improve the health of mothers and their babies by:

Identifying groups of women and infants at high risk for health problems
Monitoring changes in maternal and child health indicators (e.g., unintended pregnancy, prenatal care, breastfeeding, smoking, drinking, infant health)
Measuring progress towards public health goals for improving the health of mothers and infants
Planning and reviewing programs and policies aimed at reducing health problems among mothers and babies.
Helping health professionals incorporate new research findings into standards of practice
Fostering partnerships amongst agencies that have important contributions to make in planning maternal and infant health programs

Accessing PRAMS Data

Connecticut PRAMS data sets for 2013-2017 are available. Contact the PRAMS team to request data.

CDC Report

Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Report on CDC’s Winnable Battles: Collecting Data in Order to Improve the Health of Mothers and Infants

In order to keep pace with emerging public health challenges and to have an impact on the leading causes of death and disability, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) embarked on an initiative to achieve measurable impact in a short time for 10 topics that are described as Winnable Battle areas. CDCs Winnable Battles are areas with potential for large-scale public health effects and for which effective strategies exist to address them.

Six topics are included in this report, which together represent five of CDC’s 10 Winnable Battles:

HIV in the U.S.
Motor Vehicle Injuries
Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
Breastfeeding (part of the Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Winnable Battle)
Teen Pregnancy
Tobacco

One of the criteria for the Winnable Battles is that metrics and measurement tools exist to assess performance. The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) provides information that can be used in the assessment of a number of Winnable Battles, as exemplified in this report.

PRAMS MMWR Articles

CT PRAMS Surveys

Phase 8 (current survey) - English Spanish

Phase 7 (2013-2015 births) - English Spanish

COVID-19 Supplement - English Spanish

Zika Supplement - English Spanish

CT PRAMS Annual Reports