Evaluating New York City's Abortion Reporting System

Toprani, Amita; Madsen, Ann; Das, T. P.; Gambatese, Melissa; Greene, Carolyn M.

doi:10.1097/phh.0b013e31829c88b8

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“…[21] The results showed that 28% of doctors reported the delay in completing surveillance system questionnaires, and the main reason for this delay was attributed to the volume of questionnaires, which is consistent with the results of Toprani et al 's study. [17] The results of these studies are consistent with those of the present study regarding the surveillance system. [22] Overall, based on the results of this study, there is limited timeliness for immediate reporting, holding children's death committees on time, and completion of questionnaires and the intended measures are not carried out in the specified time duration.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…[23] Toprani et al , in 2014, evaluated the simplicity of the abortion reporting system in New York City. According to the results of other studies, 95% of the experts believed that reporting was very constructive and useful, while 52% of the experts referred to the complexity of the reporting questionnaires and believed that completing the questionnaires requires training and is a complex process and also stated that the certificate of death and the mentioned causes of death are vague,[17] which is consistent with the result of the present study. Unlike the results of this study, the study by He et al [8] showed that the Australian childcare system was very simplistic.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…[131516] Timeliness has been reduced for most diseases in recent years. [17] Timeliness in the CMSS has been improved in terms of the immediate reporting of infectious diseases as compared with the previous studies. [14181920] Another study showed that the timeliness of the diseases is low based on the national reporting of the disease surveillance system.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Evaluation of timeliness, simplicity, acceptability, and flexibility in child mortality surveillance system for children aged 1–59 months in Iran

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Background:Child mortality surveillance system (CMSS) for children aged 1–59 months is a critical issue in the prevention of mortality. This surveillance system like other health programs needs to be evaluated. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate CMSS in Iran.Methods:This evaluation was performed from March 2015 to March 2016 based on selected criteria for assessing the public health surveillance system proposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Selected criteria examined in this study included timeliness, simplicity, acceptability, and flexibility. These criteria were evaluated in two ways. First, it included the use of a researcher-made questionnaire. The questionnaires were completed by 100 experts on CMSS. Second, to perform a more exact evaluation of these criteria, 24 of these experts were selected for the focus group.Results:In this study, the response rate was 91% (42% hospital-based and 49% primary care-based). In the timeliness section, 49% of the experts believed that approvals of the child mortality committees have not been sent within the designated time frame; hardware, software, and questionnaires were reported as effective factors in this respect. The structural and administrative problems were effective in simplicity domain and the experts of mortality registration and mood of relatives were effective in acceptability domain. The flexibility of the system was high and appropriate.Conclusions:The findings of the present study reveal that CMSS has some limitations and problems in the timeliness, simplicity, and acceptability criteria, which can be resolved. But this program has an appropriate situation in terms of flexibility.

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Evaluation of timeliness, simplicity, acceptability, and flexibility in child mortality surveillance system for children aged 1–59 months in Iran

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“…NYC is a separate vital statistics reporting jurisdiction from New York state. 5 The health code defines an abortion as Ba purposeful interruption of an intrauterine pregnancy with the intention other than to produce a live-born infant and which does not result in a live birth.^6 The abortion report form is completed by health care providers or their designees and includes individual patient demographic and socioeconomic data, and self-reported past pregnancy outcomes, including live births, miscarriages/stillbirths, and abortions. No identifying data are collected other than patient initials, ZIP code, and birthdate.…”

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“…In comparison to estimates from the Guttmacher Institute's Abortion Provider Census, NYC's abortion reporting system captures approximately 88 % of abortions performed in NYC. 5 On average, approximately 90,000 abortions/year (range 83,730-94,466) were reported during 2000-2010. 7 DOHMH received reports of 83,730 abortions occurring during 2010; 76,614 of these were performed for NYC residents.…”

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Repeat Abortions in New York City, 2010

Toprani

2015

J Urban Health

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This study aims to describe factors associated with the number of past abortions obtained by New York City (NYC) abortion patients in 2010. We calculated rates of first and repeat abortion by age, race/ethnicity, and neighborhood-level poverty and the mean number of self-reported past abortions by age, race/ethnicity, neighborhood-level poverty, number of living children, education, payment method, marital status, and nativity. We used negative binomial regression to predict number of past abortions by patient characteristics. Of the 76,614 abortions reported for NYC residents in 2010, 57 % were repeat abortions. Repeat abortions comprised 950 % of total abortions among the majority of sociodemographic groups we examined. Overall, mean number of past abortions was 1.3. Mean number of past abortions was higher for women aged 30-34 years (1.77), women with ≥5 children (2.50), and black nonHispanic women (1.52). After multivariable regression, age, race/ethnicity, and number of children were the strongest predictors of number of past abortions. This analysis demonstrates that, although socioeconomic disparities exist, all abortion patients are at high risk for repeat unintended pregnancy and abortion.

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