Infants Who Are Put on Their Backs to Sleep by Year, New Jersey, 2003 to 2020
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Why Is This Important?
Placing babies on their backs to sleep reduces the risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related infant deaths, collectively termed Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID).
Definition
Self-reported practice of putting infants on their backs to sleep
Data Notes
This is Healthy New Jersey 2020 Objective MCH-6. Confidence intervals not available for 2003 data.Data Source
Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology, Division of Family Health Services, New Jersey Department of Health(https://www.nj.gov/health/fhs/maternalchild/mchepi/prams/)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of mothers who put their infants on their backs to sleepDenominator:
Number of mothers who responded to the survey
Related Health Objectives and Indicators
Health Initiative: HP2030
Healthy People 2030 Objective MICH-14
U.S. Target: Increase the proportion of infants who are put to sleep on their backs to 88.9 percent by 2030
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/browse-objectives/infants/increase-proportion-infants-who-are-put-sleep-their-backs-mich-14
Health Initiative: HP2020
Healthy People 2020 Objective MICH-20
U.S. Target: Increase the proportion of infants who are put to sleep on their backs to 75.8 percent by 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/maternal-infant-and-child-health
Health Initiative: HNJ2020
Healthy NJ 2020 Objective MCH-6
NJ Target: Increase the proportion of infants put on their backs to sleep to 80.7 percent for the total population, 84.7% for Asians, 68.9% for Blacks, 64.0% for Hispanics, and 94.3% for Whites by 2020
https://www.nj.gov/health/chs/hnj2020/topics/maternal-child-health.shtml