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Tobacco Use During Pregnancy by County of Residence, New Jersey, 2022
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Tobacco Use During Pregnancy by County of Residence, New Jersey, 2022
Why Is This Important?
Use of tobacco products during pregnancy is associated with poor birth outcomes.
Definition
Self-reported use of any tobacco product by the mother during pregnancy
Data Notes
Tobacco use during pregnancy is self-reported and, thus, assumed to be under-reported to some degree.Data Sources
- Birth Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health
(https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/) - Natality public-use data, CDC WONDER On-line Database, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(https://wonder.cdc.gov/natality.html)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of live births whose mothers used any tobacco productDenominator:
Total number of live births
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective MICH-10
U.S. Target: Increase abstinence from cigarette smoking among pregnant women to 95.7 percent of females giving birth by 2030.0
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/pregnancy-and-childbirth/increase-abstinence-cigarette-smoking-among-pregnant-women-mich-10
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective MICH-11.3
U.S. Target: Increase abstinence from cigarette smoking among pregnant women to 98.6 percent by 2020.0
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/maternal-infant-and-child-health
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective MCH-5
NJ Target: Reduce tobacco use during pregnancy to 3.4 percent for the total population, 0.27% for Asians, 5.6% for Blacks, 1.9% for Hispanics, and 4.5% for Whites by 2020.0
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/maternal-child-health.shtml
Health Initiative: CDI
Chronic Disease Indicator TOB05
Description: Cigarette smoking during pregnancy among women with a recent live birth
https://www.cdc.gov/cdi/indicator-definitions/tobacco.html