This report includes a detailed look at qualitative and quantitative data to describe and understand the lives of Louisiana mothers before, during, and shortly after pregnancy. Data come from the Louisiana Pregnancy Assessment Monitoring System. Data topics include:

• Maternal demographics & characteristics
• Insurance
• Preconception health
• Family planning
• Prenatal care
• Prenatal risk factors
• Maternal substance use
• Breastfeeding
• Infant sleep environment/safe infant sleep practices
• Stressors and experiences of discrimination
• Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
• Postpartum depression
• Maternity leave

The report also includes comparisons between national and state data, recommended best practices in maternal and child health for select topics, and direct quotes from mothers.

Suggested Audience: public health agencies/organizations, healthcare providers, policy makers

This report includes 2019 data about the lives of mothers before, during, and shortly after pregnancy. Data topics include: preconception health, family planning, prenatal care, breastfeeding, maternal stressors, maternity leave, infant health and care, and more.

Suggested Audience: public health agencies/organizations

Facilitated by the Bureau of Family Health, the Louisiana Injury Prevention Strategic Action Plan weaves approaches and resources into a comprehensive and coordinated effort to prevent injuries and violence across the state. The plan uses a shared risk and protective factor approach, which focuses on the connections between different causes of injury and violence in prevention planning, partnerships, and programmatic efforts. This approach is combined with existing building blocks like evidence-based strategies already being implemented around the state for intervention and prevention.

Priority areas include: Bullying, Youth, and Teen Dating Violence; Suicide, Motor Vehicle Collisions (MVC); Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Sexual Violence; Child Abuse and Neglect (CAN); Drowning; Homicide; Older Adult Falls; and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). The plan considers how interventions effect change at four key personal and social levels — individual, relationship, community, and societal — to ensure maximum reach and impact. The Injury Prevention Strategic Action Plan also aligns with the public health model to ensure widespread adoption of prevention strategies.

Suggested audience: Government agencies, program planners, and injury prevention advocates

The Louisiana Healthy Homes and Blood Lead Surveillance System’s 2017 report presents screening and prevalence data for elevated lead levels on a state and parish level. The report uses data collected from several private laboratories and statewide clinics. Records containing residential information were included if the child was between 6 months and 6 years of age, in order to determine if the child lived in Louisiana at the time of the test. Findings from this report help to support and guide outreach and prevention efforts, screening recommendations and resource allocation.

Suggested audience: public health agencies and partners, physicians

This annual report provides a compilation of trends, quality indicators, and usage data for the Partners for Healthy Babies helpline, the eight websites managed by the Bureau of Family Health (BFH), the BFH social media pages (Facebook and Twitter), and the Louisiana Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program’s website. It serves to identify changes over time in how target audiences interact with the Partners for Healthy Babies campaign, the WIC campaign, Partners for Family Health resources, and helps guide the future directions of these communication channels.