The Michigan Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is an ongoing survey project of mothers who deliver live births in Michigan. PRAMS is part of an effort to reduce infant mortality and adverse birth outcomes by providing information useful for developing and implementing intervention programs and for evaluating existing programs. This data is used to monitor progress toward national and state pregnancy-related health objectives, including the increase of positive birth outcomes. PRAMS is also used to identify and monitor selected self-reported maternal behaviors and experiences that occur before, during, and after pregnancy among women who deliver live-born infants.

The PRAMS survey was developed in 1987 through the cooperative effort of the Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC), the District of Columbia and the states of Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Oklahoma, and West Virginia.

PRAMS generates statewide estimates of important perinatal health indicators among women delivering a live infant. PRAMS staff collect data through a mailed survey with follow-up of non-respondents by telephone.

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Contact: PRAMS