Smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol, or using illicit or inappropriate drugs during pregnancy can have severe impacts on the health of the mother and unborn child. The use of these substances during pregnancy can cause a range of illnesses, including fetal growth restrictions, miscarriage, preterm birth, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, sudden infant death syndrome, and behavioural disorders in childhood.
The Better Outcomes Registry and Network (BORN) information system was launched in Ontario in 2012 and it captures data for all hospital births and all home births attended by a midwife. This report uses self-reported substance use data from BORN and hospitalization data (confirmed medical diagnoses) to provide an overview of tobacco (smoking), alcohol, and drug (illicit drugs or inappropriate drugs/substances) use during pregnancy for Windsor-Essex County (WEC).
Links
[1] https://www.wechu.org/sites/default/files/reports-and-statistics/Substance_use_during_pregnancy_2017_Accessible_Optimized.pdf
[2] https://www.wechu.org/tags/pregnancy
[3] https://www.wechu.org/tags/substance-use-report
[4] https://www.wechu.org/tags/substance-abuse
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