Puerto Rican Maternal and Infant Health Study
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The Puerto Rican Maternal and Infant Health Study (PRMIHS) is a cross-sectional study designed to provide information on the determinants of poor infant health among Puerto Ricans. The PRMIHS entailed collection of personal interview data from 2,763 mothers of Puerto Rican infants sampled from the 1994 and 1995 birth and infant death records of six U.S. vital statistics reporting areas (Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York City, Pennsylvania) and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The included U.S. states are those with the greatest number of births to Puerto Rican women each year. In 1994 and 1995, 72.3% of all births to mainland Puerto Rican women occurred in the included states.
The primary funding agency was the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Funds were also provided by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control. The data were collected by the Institute for Survey Research at Temple University under a subcontract from The Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University. The principal investigators are Nancy S. Landale (The Pennsylvania State University), R.S. Oropesa (The Pennsylvania State University) and Ana Luisa Davila (University of Puerto Rico).
To learn more about gaining access to this data, please see our page on this topic. Please address all correspondence to prmihs@pop.psu.edu.
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