
Births to persons with less-than-adequate prenatal care APNCU (5-year average) in Alaska
Births to persons with less-than-adequate prenatal care APNCU (5-year average)
Definitions: The percent of persons receiving less-than-adequate prenatal care as measured by the Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilization (APNCU) index. It classifies care into four levels: adequate plus, adequate, intermediate, or inadequate. Less than adequate prenatal care is a combination of intermediate and inadequate care. The index incorporates the month a pregnant person begins getting care, the number of prenatal visits, and the gestational age of the baby at birth. This is a 5-year moving average.
Data Source: Alaska Section of Health Analytics and Vital Records
Footnotes:
Five years of data were combined to minimize the unreliability of measurement due to the small number of actual events. The reported values are a rolling average across five years. For example, we report the average value across the years 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Updated June 2021