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Hunterdon County Public Health Profile Report

Tobacco Use During Pregnancy: Percentage of Live Births, 2020

  • Hunterdon
    3.0%
    95% Confidence Interval NA
    State
    2.5%
    U.S.
    5.5%
    NA=Data not available.
  • Hunterdon Compared to State

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    • Reason for Concern = The county's value on this indicator is WORSE than the state value, and the difference IS statistically significant.

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Why Is This Important?

Use of tobacco products during pregnancy is associated with poor birth outcomes.

How Are We Doing?

Tobacco use during pregnancy increases the likelihood of delivering preterm (< 37 weeks gestation) and at low birth weight (< 2500 g). Tobacco use during pregnancy is much more prevalent in southernmost New Jersey than in the rest of the state. It is also much more likely among Black and White women than among Asian and Hispanic women. The original and the more stringent revised Healthy New Jersey 2020 targets were achieved by all racial/ethnic groups.

What Is Being Done?

[http://momsquit.com/ Mom's Quit Connection] (MQC) helps pregnant and postpartum women as well as their families by providing free, one-on-one counseling for those who want to quit smoking to protect their children from exposure to harmful tobacco smoke. MQC is a program of Family Health Initiatives funded by the NJ Department of Health.

Healthy People Objective MICH-11.3:

Increase abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, and illicit drugs among pregnant women: Cigarette smoking
U.S. Target: 98.6 percent

Note

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  

Measure Description for Tobacco Use During Pregnancy

Definition: Self-reported use of any tobacco product by the mother during pregnancy
Numerator: Number of live births whose mothers used any tobacco product
Denominator: Total number of live births

Indicator Profile Report

Tobacco Use During Pregnancy (exits this report)

Date Content Last Updated

05/19/2022
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