Prenatal care is the health care women get when they are pregnant. Births to Mothers Initiating Prenatal Care in the 1st Trimester shows the count and percentage (rate) of women who began prenatal care in the first three months of their pregnancy.Women who see a health care provider regularly during pregnancy have healthier babies and are less likely to have pregnancy complications.
In 2021, in Alachua County, the percent of births with known pnc status that were Births to Mothers Initiating Prenatal Care in the 1st Trimester (All) was 80.0 compared to Florida at 73.9. Since the oldest age of the mother at birth varies, an ending age of 999 is used to retrieve all records up to and including the oldest age.
Alachua County is in the fourth quartile for this measure. This means that relative to other counties in Florida, the situation occurs less often in about three quarters of the counties than in Alachua County. The map illustrates county data by quartile. It is shown when there are at least 51 counties with data for this measure.
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Births to Mothers Initiating Prenatal Care in the 1st Trimester, Percent of Births With Known PNC Status, 2021
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Alachua | AL |
Baker | BA |
Bay | BY |
Bradford | BF |
Brevard | BV |
Broward | BW |
Calhoun | CA |
Charlotte | CH |
Citrus | CI |
Clay | CL |
Collier | CO |
Columbia | CU |
Desoto | DE |
Dixie | DI |
Duval | DU |
Escambia | ES |
Flagler | FL |
Franklin | FR |
Gadsden | GA |
Gilchrist | GI |
Glades | GL |
Gulf | GU |
Hamilton | HT |
Hardee | HA |
Hendry | HE |
Hernando | HN |
Highlands | HL |
Hillsborough | HB |
Holmes | HM |
Indian river | IR |
Jackson | JS |
Jefferson | JE |
Lafayette | LY |
Lake | LA |
Lee | LE |
Leon | LO |
Levy | LV |
Liberty | LI |
Madison | MS |
Manatee | MN |
Marion | MR |
Martin | MA |
Miami-Dade | DA |
Monroe | MO |
Nassau | NA |
Okaloosa | OL |
Okeechobee | OK |
Orange | OR |
Osceola | OS |
Palm beach | PB |
Pasco | PA |
Pinellas | PL |
Polk | PO |
Putnam | PN |
Santa rosa | SR |
Sarasota | SS |
Seminole | SO |
St. Johns | SJ |
St. Lucie | SL |
Sumter | ST |
Suwannee | SN |
Taylor | TA |
Union | UN |
Volusia | VO |
Wakulla | WK |
Walton | WT |
Washington | WG |
Births to Mothers Initiating Prenatal Care in the 1st Trimester, Single Year|
2021 | 1,837 | 2,297 | 80.0* | 1.6 | 148,493 | 200,929 | 73.9 | 0.2 |
2020 | 1,841 | 2,352 | 78.3* | 1.7 | 148,794 | 195,458 | 76.1 | 0.2 |
2019 | 1,882 | 2,384 | 78.9* | 1.6 | 150,090 | 197,866 | 75.9 | 0.2 |
2018 | 1,926 | 2,398 | 80.3* | 1.6 | 152,514 | 199,490 | 76.5 | 0.2 |
2017 | 2,033 | 2,510 | 81.0* | 1.5 | 153,842 | 199,076 | 77.3 | 0.2 |
2016 | 2,069 | 2,514 | 82.3* | 1.5 | 157,084 | 200,296 | 78.4 | 0.2 |
2015 | 2,079 | 2,589 | 80.3 | 1.5 | 161,643 | 203,862 | 79.3 | 0.2 |
2014 | 2,124 | 2,697 | 78.8 | 1.5 | 160,186 | 201,802 | 79.4 | 0.2 |
2013 | 2,116 | 2,658 | 79.6 | 1.5 | 159,880 | 199,996 | 79.9 | 0.2 |
2012 | 2,117 | 2,764 | 76.6* | 1.6 | 159,307 | 199,097 | 80.0 | 0.2 |
2011 | 2,198 | 2,821 | 77.9* | 1.5 | 154,294 | 192,194 | 80.3 | 0.2 |
2010 | 2,112 | 2,714 | 77.8 | 1.6 | 147,843 | 186,373 | 79.3 | 0.2 |
2009 | 2,101 | 2,763 | 76.0* | 1.6 | 154,752 | 197,693 | 78.3 | 0.2 |
2008 | 2,180 | 2,822 | 77.3 | 1.5 | 159,426 | 207,324 | 76.9 | 0.2 |
2007 | 2,080 | 2,684 | 77.5 | 1.6 | 165,545 | 217,979 | 75.9 | 0.2 |
2006 | 2,125 | 2,688 | 79.1* | 1.5 | 165,076 | 215,035 | 76.8 | 0.2 |
2005 | 2,073 | 2,538 | 81.7* | 1.5 | 158,516 | 201,817 | 78.5 | 0.2 |
2004 | 1,991 | 2,429 | 82.0 | 1.5 | 156,879 | 193,780 | 81.0 | 0.2 |
2003 | 2,110 | 2,469 | 85.5 | 1.4 | 180,107 | 209,801 | 85.8 | 0.1 |
2002 | 2,050 | 2,395 | 85.6 | 1.4 | 173,475 | 203,158 | 85.4 | 0.2 |