Costs of smoking during pregnancy: development of the Maternal and Child Health Smoking Attributable Mortality, Morbidity and Economic Costs (MCHSAMMEC) software
Cathy L Melvina, E Kathleen Adamsb, Vince Millerc
a Cecil G Sheps Center
for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, USA, b Rollins School of Public Health, Emory
University, USA, c Berkeley
Economic Research Associates, Berkeley, California, USA
Correspondence to: Cathy L Melvin, PhD, MPH, Cecil G Sheps Center for Health Services Research, CB 7590, 725 Airport Road, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7590, USA; cathy_melvin{at}unc.edu
Received 6 December
1999; Revision received 2 March 2000;
Accepted 16 March
2000
The development and availability is described of new, user
friendly software, the Maternal and Child Health Smoking Attributable Mortality, Morbidity and Economic Costs (MCHSAMMEC), that will allow
states and other entities to estimate pregnancy related, smoking
attributable costs for their population. The methodology underlying the
MCHSAMMEC software, including calculations used in the prevalence based
analysis of smoking attributable mortality and costs of infant neonatal
care, are described, along with design and data management features and
possible applications of the software for policy and program
development at various levels of the health care system.
Keywords: smoking; pregnancy; costs
© 2000 by Tobacco Control
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