The Louisiana Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a population-based survey of women who deliver a live-born infant within a given calendar year. The 2021 Louisiana PRAMS Data Report, a compilation of Louisiana PRAMS results for selected indicators, highlights data for births occurring in 2020. In 2021, there were 55,652 live births that satisfied the Louisiana PRAMS inclusion criteria, of which 1,172 were sampled. Of this sample, there were 670 respondents, resulting in a 57 percent overall weighted response rate.

Louisiana PRAMS data can be used by program planners, health care providers, policy makers, and public health leaders to design, implement, and evaluate programs and services for women and infants in Louisiana.

The 2020 Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review (PAMR) Report shares findings from the LA-PAMR Committee’s review of pregnancy-associated deaths occurring in 2020, including findings related to racial disparities, and recommendations for prevention. LA-PAMR works to quantify and understand pregnancy-associated deaths in order to create actionable, comprehensive recommendations to prevent future deaths.

Pregnancy-associated deaths include:

• Pregnancy-related deaths: The death of a woman during pregnancy or within one year of the end of pregnancy from a pregnancy complication, a chain of events initiated by the pregnancy, or the aggravation of an unrelated condition by the physiologic effects of pregnancy (example cause of death: preeclampsia or eclampsia).
• Pregnancy-associated, but not related deaths: The death of a woman during pregnancy or within one year of the end of pregnancy from a cause that is not related to pregnancy (example cause of death: car crash).
• Pregnancy-associated, but unable to determine relatedness deaths: A pregnancy-associated death where the cause of death is unable to be determined as “pregnancy-related” or “pregnancy-associated, but not related” (example cause of death: suicide).

The CDC Division of Reproductive Health announced that PRAMS has a new, streamlined process for researchers to access PRAMS data. PRAMS provides data on maternal attitudes, experiences, and behaviors around the time of pregnancy. These data are now available as an automated research file (ARF) that can be downloaded. Researchers no longer need to submit a proposal for access to PRAMS data. Instead, they will be asked to complete a short form to gain access to the data portal and sign a data use agreement before directly downloading the data.
Find additional information for how to access the PRAMS ARF and other PRAMS datasets on the CDC website.

Louisiana Birth Defects Monitoring Network (LBDMN) is responsible for the surveillance of birth defects in Louisiana’s children. This report fulfills the annual legislative reporting requirement and details data findings and performance measure assessments for our stakeholders.

Audience: Clinicians, data seekers, public health agencies/organizations, community partners, policymakers

https://ldh.la.gov/assets/docs/LegisReports/ChildDeathReview/CDRReport_2019_2021.pdf