The Georgia Health Policy Center was engaged by the Georgia Department of Community Health for the Collaborative Modeling to Reduce Low Birth Weight project. For this project, a model was designed by a collaborative system dynamics modeling team comprised of state agency representatives, legislative staff and experts in maternal/child health, obstetrics, and epidemiology. The purpose of developing the model was to examine policy and program alternatives from a systemic perspective and to focus state efforts on the highest leverage opportunities to reduce low weight births, their complications, and resulting economic and societal costs.
Contact: Mary Ann Phillips