Family and Child Health Data
Vermont’s family and child health strategic priorities and programming are informed by data.
| Data resource | Further information |
|---|---|
| Pace Vermont | The Policy and Communication Evaluation (PACE) Vermont Study seeks to understand the impact of state-level policies and communication campaigns on substance use beliefs and behaviors in young Vermonters. Learn more in the Pace Vermont Data Brief. |
| Healthy Vermonters | Information on a local level, view trends over time, and visualize the indicators on Vermont maps. |
| Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) | Monitors priority health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death, disease, injury and social problems among youth. |
| Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) | Ongoing survey of Vermont mothers who have recently given birth, providing data about pregnancy and the first few months after birth. |
| School Health Profiles | Monitors school health education requirements and content, physical education and activity, school health policies related to HIV infection/AIDS, tobacco use prevention, nutrition, asthma management activities, family and community involvement in school health programs, and school health coordination. |
| Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) | Tracks health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services. |
| Vital Statistics Reports and Maps | Births, deaths, marriages, civil unions, divorces, dissolutions, fetal deaths and abortions. |
| Birth Information Network | Statewide surveillance of selected birth defects and other congenital conditions. |
| Immunization Registry | Secure system that contains immunization records for persons living in Vermont. |
| All Health Department data sources | Vermont Center for Health Statistics coordinates and responds to the majority of public health data questions. |
| Vermont Insights | Allows users to find and use data to understand the well-being of Vermont’s children, families and communities. |
| Vermont Child Health Improvement Program | Maternal and child health services research and quality improvement program of the University of Vermont. |
| Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health | National data resource providing easy access to children’s health data on a variety of important topics, including the health and well-being of children and access to quality care. |
| National Survey for Children's Health | Data on multiple, intersecting aspects of children’s lives—including physical and mental health, access to quality health care, and the child’s family, neighborhood, school, and social context. |