Response to "The Time has Come for All States to Measure Racial Discrimination: A Call to Action for the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS)"

Abstract

We respond to a recent call to action for the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) to include a "core" question or validated measure on discrimination to allow for systematic assessment of the impact of racial discrimination on adverse birth outcomes among a large population-based sample in the United States. We outline activities of the CDC PRAMS project that relate to this call to action.

Keywords: PRAMS; Racial discrimination; Survey design.