Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR) Definitions

Cohort

A group of people sharing a common temporal demographic experience who are observed through time. For example, the birth cohort of 1940 is the people born that year. Another example is school class cohort. In this case, Birth Cohorts are used. This means that in a given cohort year, all fetal deaths and births are accounted for. However any infant deaths that are linked to live births may have occurred in the cohort year or up to one year after. E.g. the 2014 birth cohort will include linked infant deaths that occurred in both 2014 and 2015.

Education

The last grade of formal education completed. A sample calculation is Percentage of Live Births to Females with Less than High School Education - The total number of live births to females with less than a high school education, per 100 total live births. Formula = [Total Number of Live Births to Females with Less than High School Education / Total Number of Live Births] * 100.

Feto-Infant Mortality Rate (FIMR) and Perinatal Periods of Risk (PPOR)

Feto-infant mortality rate (FIMR) is defined as the number of fetal deaths (>= 20 weeks gestation & 200+ grams) plus the number of infant deaths (200+ grams) divided by the total number of fetal deaths (>= 20 weeks gestation & 200+ grams) plus live births (200+ grams) and expressed as a rate per 1,000. Being a birth cohort measure, infant deaths are linked to live births of a given cohort year. This means that for example, the 2014 Rate of FIMR will have only 2014 Live Births and Fetal Deaths in the denominator, whereas the numerator has Infant Deaths from both 2014 and 2015 that were linked to 2014 Live Births (in addition to 2014 fetal deaths).

PPOR	Examples of Suggested Causes	Examples of Suggested Interventions
Women's Health	Unintended Pregnancy, Poor Nutrition, No Prenatal Care, Substance Abuse/Smoking, First or 4th-or-higher birth, Untreated STD's, < 2 year birth interval.	Pre-conceptual, peri-conceptual and early prenatal interventions which affect the mother's health and increase birthweight. Examples include assuring good nutritional status including folic acid intake.
Maternal Care	Prenatal Care not matched to need.	Prenatal, intra-partum and postpartum services which directly affect the maternal outcome by reducing excessive maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity. Assuring an appropriate match between need and content of prenatal care.
Newborn Care	Group B Strep untreated.	Intra-partum, early neonatal, and postpartum services which directly affect the newborn outcome by reducing excessive early neonatal mortality and morbidity. These are chiefly biomedical interventions.
Infant Care	No Parenting Skills Education, No Immunizations, No breastfeeding, Injury: Falls, burns, etc, Child Abuse / neglect, No Monitoring Growth / Development.	Post discharge services which directly affect the infant outcome by reducing excessive post discharge mortality and morbidity. For example, SIDS and injury prevention through health education.

Formula

Women's Health = [Number of Feto-Infant deaths related to Women's Health / (Births 200+ grams + Fetal Deaths >= 20 weeks and 200+ grams)] * 1,000
Maternal Care = [Number of deaths occurring to fetuses related to Maternal Care / (Births 200+ grams + Fetal Deaths >= 20 weeks and 200+ grams)] * 1,000
Newborn Care = [Number of infant deaths related to Newborn Care / (Births 200+ grams + Fetal Deaths >= 20 weeks and 200+ grams)] * 1,000
Infant Care = [Number of infant deaths related to Infant Care / (Births 200+ grams + Fetal Deaths >= 20 weeks and 200+ grams)] * 1,000

Socio-Economic Status (SES) Groups

SES groups commonly used in PPOR: for each Race: 1) 20+ years of age & 13+ years of education, 2) 20+ years of age & <13 years of education, 3) <20 years of age & <13 years of education.

International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM)

A statistical classification system, in use since 1979, that arranges diseases and injuries into groups according to established criteria. It is used to improve comparability of cause of death statistics reported by different governmental entities. Most ICD-9-CM codes are numeric and consist of three, four or five numbers and a description. The codes are revised approximately every 10 years by the World Health Organization and annual updates are published by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), now the Center for Medicare, Medicaid Services.

International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, (ICD-10)

An alphanumeric coding scheme that replaces ICD-9, and used for mortality data since 1999. ICD-10 codes were developed by the World Health Organization Collaborating Centres for Classification of Diseases.

Non-Rural

Any county with 50,000 or more total population according to the United States decennial census of 2010 or any future such census (GA Code § 31-6-2 and 31-7-94.1).

Race

Per the Federal Office of Management and Budget, Directive 15 (1997),

• White is a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa;
• Black or African-American is a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa;
• Asian is a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand and Vietnam;
• American Indian/Alaska Native is a person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment;
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander is a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands;
• Multiracial is a person declaring 2 or more of these races.

Rural

Any county having a population of less than 50,000 according to the United States decennial census of 2010 or any future such census (GA Code § 31-6-2 and 31-7-94.1).

Socioeconomic (SES) Vulnerability

Socioeconomic (SES) Vulnerability refers to the socioeconomic status domain/subset of the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) 2020. Socioeconomic vulnerability ranks census tracts within Georgia on 5 factors: below 150% poverty, unemployed, housing cost burden, no high school diploma, and no health insurance. Percentile ranking values range from 0 to 1, with higher values indicating greater vulnerability/lower socioeconomic status. Quintiles of the percentile rankings were used to create class breaks (Very Low, Low, Average, High and Very High SES Vulnerability). Keep in mind that “Very Low” SES Vulnerability equates to a High SES status. For more information see https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/placeandhealth/svi/index.html. For data dictionary click here.

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