North Dakota five-year needs assessment (2011-2015) for the Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block Grant program

"Every five years, North Dakota is required by the Title V legislation to develop a comprehensive statewide needs assessment. This needs assessment requires ongoing sources of information about maternal and child health (MCH) status, risk factors, access, capacity and outcomes. Needs assessment of the MCH population is an ongoing collaborative process, one that is critical to program planning and development and enables the state to target services and monitor the effectiveness of interventions that support improvements in the health, safety and well-being of the MCH population, which includes: Pregnant women, mothers and infants to age ; Children and adolescents ; Children and youth with special health-care needs."--Executive summary.