MMWR Vol. 63 / No. SS-3 ► Core State Preconception Health Indicators — Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009 Cheryl L. Robbins, PhD, Lauren B. Zapata, PhD, Sherry L. Farr, PhD, et al. MMWR 2014;63(No. SS-3)

MMWR Vol. 63 / No. SS-3

MMWR Surveillance Summaries Vol. 63, No. SS-3 April 25, 2014

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Core State Preconception Health Indicators — Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009 Cheryl L. Robbins, PhD, Lauren B. Zapata, PhD, Sherry L. Farr, PhD, et al. MMWR 2014;63(No. SS-3) Promoting preconception health can potentially improve women’s health and pregnancy outcomes. Evidence-based interventions exist to reduce many maternal behaviors and chronic conditions that are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes such as tobacco use, alcohol use, inadequate folic acid intake, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is an ongoing state- and population-based surveillance system designed to monitor selected self-reported maternal behaviors, conditions, and experiences that occur shortly before, during, and after pregnancy among women who deliver live-born infants. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is an ongoing state-based telephone survey of noninstitutionalized adults aged =18 years in the United States that collects state-level data on health-related risk behaviors, chronic conditions, and preventive health services. Data from PRAMS and BRFSS were used to compile this surveillance summary on preconception health.