Estimating Annual Births to Hepatitis B Surface Antigen-Positive Women in the United States by Using Data on Maternal Country of Birth.

Objective: A national estimate of births to hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive women can help public health programs plan surveillance, educational, and outreach activities to improve identification and management of at-risk women and infants. Stratifying mothers by country of birth allows for the application of region-specific HBsAg prevalence estimates, which can more precisely estimate the number of at-risk infants. The objective of our study was to estimate the number of births to HBsAg-positive women in the United States with more granularity than previous models.

The national Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention Program, 1994-2008.

Objective: To determine the trends and outcomes of the national Perinatal Hepatitis B Prevention Program (PHBPP) for infants born from 1994 to 2008.

Methods: PHBPPs in state and city public health jurisdictions annually submitted program outcome reports to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The annual number of births to hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive women was estimated and used to evaluate the percentage of PHBPP-identified HBsAg-positive pregnant women.

Estimating the number of births to hepatitis B virus-infected women in 22 states, 2006.

Background: Estimating the annual number of births to hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected women is essential for monitoring efforts to prevent perinatal HBV transmission. We describe a method for estimating births to HBV-infected women in 22 states during 2006.

Methods: The number of births to HBV-infected women was calculated by (1) multiplying the number of US/Canadian-born mothers stratified by US race/ethnicity-specific HBV prevalence estimates, and (2) adding the number of foreign-born mothers stratified by their region of birth and multiplied by region-specific HBV prevalence estimates.

A population-based study of access to immunization among urban Virginia children served by public, private, and military health care systems.

Background: Pediatric immunization rates have increased in the United States since 1990. Nevertheless, national survey data indicate that up to one third of 2-year-old children in some states and urban areas lack at least one recommended dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP)-, polio-, or measles-containing vaccines. Immunization has become a key measure of preventive pediatric health care in the United States.

Mumps surveillance--United States, 1988-1993.

Problem/condition: CDC monitors the incidence of mumps in the United States through the passive reporting of cases to its National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS).

Reporting Period Covered: 1988-1993.

Description Of System: Weekly reports to the NNDSS from 48 states and the District of Columbia were used to calculate incidence rates for mumps.