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From data to action : CDC's public health surveillance for women, infants, and children (second edition)
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2020
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Description:The initial edition of Data to Action: CDC’s Public Health Surveillance for Women, Infants and Children, published in 1994, was the first comprehensive description of the Centers for Disease Control’s many surveillance and data system activities related to the health of women and children. It covered critical public health concerns, spanning the life cycle from infancy to reproductive-age women, with each chapter structured similarly so that differences and connections could be more easily discerned.
Public health professionals have always been concerned with measuring health events across the life span. Maternal and child health surveillance captures data on reproductive health, pregnancy, birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence. Public health planners need to know the data that are available and how to use that information. In turn, public health data systems need to respond to the needs of stakeholders by providing and interpreting data that can be translated into appropriate action. The demand for such information is rapidly increasing in the public health community and will become even more critical in the face of emerging public health crises and emergency preparedness and response.
This monograph is a step toward making the surveillance systems of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) more accessible to persons concerned with the health of women, infants, and children. It aims to note achievements from previous decades as well as identify new and ongoing challenges. Data needs evolve over time, and surveillance systems can adapt and respond to these challenges. This monograph offers health practitioners and planners at national, state, local and tribal levels a better appreciation of the uses and limitations of these surveillance systems, and enables us to think more critically about improvements in measuring the health of these populations.
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