[Federal Register: March 15, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 50)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[60Day-04-31]
Proposed Data Collections Submitted for Public Comment and
Recommendations
In compliance with the requirement of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 for opportunity for public comment on
proposed data collection projects, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will publish periodic summaries of proposed projects.
To request more information on the proposed projects or to obtain a
copy of the data collection plans and instruments, call the CDC Reports
Clearance Officer on (404) 498-1210.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other
forms of information technology. Send comments to Seleda Perryman, CDC
Assistant Reports Clearance Officer, 1600 Clifton Road, MS-E11,
Atlanta, GA 30333. Written comments should be received within 60 days
of this notice.
Proposed Project--Brownsville-Matamoros Sister City Project (BMSCP)
for Women's Health--New--National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP), Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). The Brownsville-Matamoros Sister City Project for
Women's Health is a proposed pilot project in which a standardized
approach to surveillance will be established in selected hospitals that
provide obstetric services in Brownsville and Harlingen, Texas, U.S.,
and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
During 2003 and 2004, CDC provided funds to support staff from CDC,
NCDDPHP, the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost
College, the University of Texas--Houston School of Public Health, and
Helix, Inc. These funds were used to disseminate information or inform
health practitioners and public health officials at the local, state
and national level about the BMSCP, implement development of the
methodology and data collection instruments for the pilot phase of data
collection described herein, conduct discussion groups (currently
ongoing) to determine the appropriate language for interviews, and to
determine the acceptability of topic areas to be covered in the
interviews, and the appropriateness of the proposed methodology.
The purpose of the proposed data collection is to test a
standardized approach for hospital-based surveillance of women's health
and chronic disease issues in the US-Mexico border communities of
Brownsville and Harlingen, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
The primary method of data collection will be in-person interviews with
women who give birth to live infants; which may be supplemented by
abstracting additional data from the medical records of respondents and
birth certificates of their infants. The majority of interviews will
take place after delivery but prior to hospital discharge.
Women who are selected for the pilot project but discharged prior
to interview will be interviewed at the clinic they attend for
postnatal care. The questionnaire will include questions to help
monitor the occurrence of and risk factors for adolescent pregnancy,
infant mortality, and gestational diabetes, as well as questions about
physical activity and dietary practices, cervical cancer screening
history, and knowledge of HIV transmission and prevention. These issues
have been established as priorities by the U.S.-Mexico Binational
Health Commission (USMBHC) and are included in the Healthy Border 2010
objectives of the USMBHC. This approach to surveillance through which
data will be collected using a standardized and uniform methodology on
the U.S. and Mexican sides of the US-Mexico border is needed.
Most data collection systems currently in place have been designed
to collect information from either U.S. or Mexican residents, and the
methodology of such systems is not comparable. Persons living along the
US-Mexico border frequently cross the border in both directions for
healthcare, work, and social reasons, they represent a unique
population with respect to public health needs and public health
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program access. This pilot project will be conducted during fiscal year
2005. If successful, this surveillance system may serve as a model for
surveillance in other border communities. There will be no cost to
respondents.
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Number of Average
Number of responses burden per Total
Respondents respondents per response burden (in
respondent (in hours) hours)
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U.S...................................................... 400 1 30/60 200
Mexico................................................... 400 1 30/60 200
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Total................................................ .............. ........... ........... 400
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Dated: March 5, 2004.
Alvin Hall,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 04-5728 Filed 3-12-04; 8:45 am]
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