Resources and Tools
Low Birth Weight / Prematurity Resources and Tools
This page provides access to resources and tools on topics related to low birth weight and prematurity. The materials meet PPN standards of scientific rigor, objectivity, and user friendliness and include links to databases, fact sheets, screening tools, seminal reports, and a variety of other resources that are among the best research-based materials available on this topic.
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PPN Issue Brief
Promising Practices for Preventing Low Birth Weight
This PPN Issue Brief provides a concise overview of research-based information on issues related to preventing low birth weight.
Reports, Briefs and Other Publications
Healthy Women, Healthy Babies
This issue brief from Trust for America's Health demonstrates the link between maternal health and infant mortality, in the context of infant mortality rates that have remained stagnant since 2000.
Read the issue brief at healthyamericans.org
Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention
This report from the Institute of Medicine highlights the causes and consequences of the dramatic increase in preterm births in the past two decades, including the social ramifications of preterm birth, which disproportionately affect African American women.
Read the report at iom.edu
Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health Care
This Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR April 21, 2006 / Vol. 55 / No. RR-6) provides guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control on how to improve preconception health and health care.
Low Birth Weight Journal Articles
This issue of the Future of Children Journal (Volume 5, Number 1 - Spring 1995) has 14 interdisciplinary articles about issues related to Low Birth Weight, authored by experts in the field. The Future of Children Journal is published twice per year, with each issue focusing on a topic related to children.
Databases and Tools
KIDS COUNT Data on Low Birth Weight Babies
KIDS COUNT, a national and state effort funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, tracks the status of children in the U.S. and publishes a national data book each year. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children.
See the state data table at kidscount.org
State Health Data and Maps
Statehealthfacts.org is a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and is designed to provide free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states. Statehealthfacts.org provides data on more than 500 health topics and is linked to both the Kaiser Family Foundation website (www.kff.org) and KaiserNetwork.org (www.kaisernetwork.org).
See state data tables and maps at statehealthfacts.org:
Preterm births as a percent of all births
Fact Sheets
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2007—Low Birthweight
This childstats.gov fact sheet provides information related to epidemiological trends in low birth weight. Childstats.gov is a project of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, a working group of Federal agencies that collect, analyze, and report data on issues related to children and families.
Quick Reference Fact Sheets: Low Birthweight
This fact sheet, from the March of Dimes, provides answers to important questions about the causes, consequences, and treatments for babies born with low birth weight.
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