Journal of women's health
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Journal of women's health · Aug 2019
Surveillance for Emerging Threats to Pregnant Women and Infants.
Recent public health emergencies have highlighted the unique vulnerabilities of pregnant women and infants to emerging health threats and the critical role of public health surveillance. Surveillance systems can collect critical data to measure the impact of a disease or disaster and can be used to inform clinical guidance and prevention strategies. These systems can also be tailored to collect data on vulnerable populations, such as pregnant women and their infants. ⋯ In this report, we describe ongoing surveillance efforts to monitor congenital syphilis, Zika virus infection during pregnancy, and neonatal abstinence syndrome. We describe the need and rationale for an ongoing integrated surveillance system to monitor pregnant women and their infants and to detect emerging threats. We also discuss how data collected through this type of system can better position federal, state, and local health departments to more rapidly and comprehensively respond to the next public health emergency.
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Journal of women's health · Aug 2019
Comment Letter"Improving Knowledge and Awareness of Human Papillomavirus-Associated Gynecologic Cancers: Results from the National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program/Inside Knowledge Collaboration" by Townsend et al. (J Womens Health (Larchmt) 2018;27:955-964).