Putting Alaska PRAMS Data to Work

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Putting Alaska PRAMS Data to Work

• Kathy Perham-Hester, MS, MPH
• State of Alaska, Dept. of Health Social
  Services,
• Division of Public Health,
• Section of Maternal, Child, and Family Health

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Outcomes Desired

• 1. Raise visibility 2. Set priorities 3.
  Obtain resources 4. Develop or modify
  programs 5. Inform policy

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Maternal/ infant health issues at the forefront
in Alaska

• ? Alcohol use during pregnancy
• ? Domestic violence around the time of
  pregnancy

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Examples of raising visibility

• Presentations at conferences/meetings of
  methodology and/or data
• Alaska Health Summits
• Alaska Native Epidemiology Center
• Childrens Hospital
• Legislature
• Electronic Birth Certificate Workshops
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Summits
• Distribution of published journal articles

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Examples of setting priorities
? Health Status in Alaska A document updating
the Healthy Alaskans 2000 goals Part
of the Public Health Improvement Process for
Alaska ? Womens Health Status report A
document giving a comprehensive picture of
womens health in Alaska ? Incorporating
feedback from visibility presentations
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Examples of obtaining resources
? Title V Block Grant Alcohol use during
pregnancy Physical abuse to women by their
partners ? CDC Grants Preventing
alcohol-exposed pregnancies among high-risk
women in special settings Population-based
surveillance of fetal alcohol syndrome?
National Institute of Justice Grant Linking
PRAMS to child protective services
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Examples of developing or modifying programs
? Alaska Domestic Violence Training Project?
Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project Alaska
Rural Domestic Violence and Child Abuse
Project
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Examples of informing policy
? Fetal alcohol syndrome policy makers
meeting ? Medicaid expansion ? Public Health
Improvement Process