MOTHERS and INFANTS

New Mexico Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (NM PRAMS) provides information about the preconception, prenatal, and postpartum health of new mothers and their infants .
               Contact - Eirian Coronado, PRAMS Coordinator
                   Phone - 505-476-8895
                   e-mail - nm.prams@state.nm.us
Program website -  http://www.health.state.nm.us/phd/prams/home.html
               Data Link - PRAMS Surveillance Report, Year 2001-2002 Births

New Mexico Birth Defects Prevention and Surveillance
System (BDPASS), reports numbers and rates for major birth defects and related prevention information.
               Contact - Jean Higgins
               Phone - 505-476-8859
               e-mail -  jean.higgins@state.nm.us

CHILDREN

New Mexico Child Fatality Review reports on deaths in New Mexico for newborns to twenty-four year olds - including homicide, suicide, unintentional injury, abuse and/or neglect, motor vehicle crashes and SIDS - with a focus on risk reduction, prevention, and needs for community systems improvements.
                Contact - Bonnie Taylor
                Phone - 505-476-7833
                e-mail -- BonnieJ.Taylor@state.nm.us
 
Children's Chronic Conditions Registry reports on chronic medical conditions by such factors as county, age, race and ethnicity.
               Contact - Lynn Christiansen
               Phone - 476-8851
               e-mail-- AnnaLynn.Christiansen@state.nm.us

New Mexico Voices, a statewide children's advocacy organization, summarizes health, economic, and educational factors, including rankings with other states.
             Contact - Kay Monaco
             Phone -- 505-244-9505
             Data Link - Kids Count Data Book
             email-- kmonaco@nmvoices.org

Child Trends provides data on the latest national trends with research based on over 80 key indicators of child and youth well-being.
             Data Link - Databank

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY AND PREVENTION

New Mexico Family Planning Program maps county-level data relating to teen births, including poverty and dropout rates. Its latest report also addresses prevention.
                    Phone - 505-476-8882
             Data Link - Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Challenge 2005

New Mexico Vital Records and Health Statistics documents teen birth rates and pregnancy-related data and birth outcomes through 2003 by race and ethnicity, age,
and county of residence.
                Data Link - Births to Teens in New Mexico



OTHER RESOURCES

Vital Records and Health Statistics along with the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women compiles health, social and economic information about women.
             Data Link - Women's Health Profiles 2001

See PRAMS entries under Newborns and Infants

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers statistics from 1995-2001
             Data Link - reproductive health

The Federal MCH Bureau maintains a Child Health USA site
             website link - Child Health USA

The Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization focusing on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis, and public education has two sites.
             website link-- http://www.agi-usa.org/

The Office on Women's Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services works to improve the health and well-being of women and girls in the United
States through its innovative programs, by educating health professionals through media.
           website link--http://www.4woman.gov/owh/index.htm


MORE INFORMATION

For more information about the New Mexico Maternal Child Health Epidemiology Program,
Phone - 505-476-8895