Prenatal Care: Percent of Women Receiving Prenatal Care in the First Trimester
Current Value
71.8%
Definition
The percent of all births and births in selected racial groups with prenatal care beginning in the first trimester
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Data Discussion
Beginning in 2021, MDH began using new race/ethnicity groups that makes these daqta not comparahble to previous year. As a result, the prior disaggregated indicators have been added to the archived scorecard and new indicators were created with the new race/ethnicity subgroups.
Unless otherwise specified, any missing data is either because there are no individuals who identify with the race/ethnicity or the data is suppressed to protect privacy. The race/ethnicity groups included in the indicator are as written in the original data source. The methodology for collecting information on the time during pregnancy that prenatal care began was changed in the 2010 revision of the Maryland birth certificate. As a result, prenatal care data collected after 2009 are not comparable to data collected in earlier years.