The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) operates the Better Birth Outcomes (BBO) initiative as an intensive case management program for at-risk pregnant women. BBO provides prenatal health education, coordination of care with primary and specialty medical services, referrals to childbirth education and parenting classes, access to contraceptive services, and overall care coordination. The goals of BBO program are as follows:

1. decrease the incidence of infant mortality and morbidity resulting from lack of adequate prenatal care;

2. improve pregnancy outcomes;

3. reduce the incidence of prematurity and low birth weight.

BBO operates in targeted communities across Illinois that had high rates of preterm births in 2009. Women are determined to be eligible for the program using an evidence-based 17-item assessment questionnaire.

We use administrative data from our partner and the American Community Survey (2009-2014) to produce our deliverables, and US vital statistics (2013) for additional exploratory data analyses. More information on these data sources can be found in the following locations (as of 8/17/15):

IDHS Cornerstone Database: http://www.dhs.state.il.us/OneNetLibrary/27896/documents/Cornerstone/Cstone_User_Manual.pdf

American Community Survey: https://www.census.gov/acs/www/about/why-we-ask-each-question/

Vital Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm

We define an adverse birth as one of the following:

1. Preterm (< 37 weeks gestation), or

2. Low birthweight (< 2,500 grams), or

3. Neonatal/infant death, or

4. Neonatal intensive care unit stay

This repo includes the following folders/, subfolders/, python scripts (.py), ipython notebooks (.ipynb), and sql scripts (.sql):

1. babysaver/ - machine learning pipeline module
2. etl/ - extract-transform-load pipeline
3. exploratory/ - exploratory data analyses
4. geospatial/- geocode scripts, maps, SQL cleaning, caseload allocation, notebooks
5. images - images for README
6. notebooks - ipython notebooks that run our pipeline on Cornerstone and Vital Statistics data
7. webapp/ - code for Flask app

config.csv is an example of the data configuration file used to load in variables via functions in babysaver. This can be edited manually spreadsheet-style or generated from a dictionary. See babysaver/features.py or notebooks/babysaver_example.ipynb for more details.

The babysaver module can deployed in python as follows:

   import sys
   babysaver_parent = # this is where I cloned the babies repo
   sys.path.insert(0, babysaver_parent)
   from babysaver import features
   from babysaver import models
   from babysaver import evaluation

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