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Tobacco Use During Pregnancy by Mother's Race/Ethnicity, New Jersey, 2000 to 2022
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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
This is revised Healthy New Jersey 2020 (HNJ2020) Objective MCH-5. Tobacco use during pregnancy is self-reported and, thus, assumed to be under-reported to some degree. Data for White, Black, and Asian do not include Hispanics. Hispanic ethnicity includes persons of any race. New York City did not report race and ethnicity for births to New Jersey residents that occurred in NYC prior to 2010. Therefore, data by race/ethnicity for 2000-2009 is not directly comparable to data for 2010 and later. 2014 and 2015 were transitional years in New Jersey birth data collection as the old Electronic Birth Certificate (EBC) system was retired and the new Vital Information Platform (VIP) was rolled out in hospitals across the state over a one year period from July 2014 through June 2015. Tobacco use is collected differently in the VIP than it was in the EBC and is not directly comparable between the old and the new system.Data Source
Birth Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health(https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/)
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
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
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
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