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More progress is needed to make sure children from low-income families are going to the dentist is just one of the findings of the 2011 Kentucky Kids Count County Data, released by Kentucky Youth Advocates.
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- Kids Count Report Shows Where Children In Your County And School District Rank, In A Huge Number Of Measures
Conditions have improved slightly for Kentucky children, especially in education and health, and the state's overall well-being ranking has gone up one spot, from 35th to 34th in the nation. But economic conditions for young Kentuckians have...
- Children's Health And Education Improves In Kentucky, But One In Four Kids Lives In Poverty, Report Shows
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- Infant Mortality, Pre-term Birth, Teenage Pregnancy, Children Living In Smokers' Homes All Drop Even As As Child Poverty Goes Up
Nationwide, the rates of infants who die, babies who are born prematurely, teens who are having babies, and the percentage of young children who live in a home where someone smokes have all decreased in the last five years. But the percentage of kids...
- Last Year, 17.4 Percent Of Kentuckians Lived In Poverty And 17.5 Percent Did Not Have Health Insurance
More than one in six Kentuckians lived in poverty last year and almost exactly the same number didn't have health insurance, preliminary U.S. Census numbers show. The state's poverty rate was 17.4 percent and the uninsured rate was...
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County data paint specific pictures of health; Ashland paper is one of first to pick up on it and do a story
More progress is needed to make sure children from low-income families are going to the dentist is just one of the findings of the 2011 Kentucky Kids Count County Data, released by Kentucky Youth Advocates. The data paint a detailed portrait of each county's health for Kentucky's children, showing results of prenatal care, the percentage of mothers smoking during pregnancy, rates of preterm birth and low birthweight, breastfeeding, the number of children enrolled in Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid, early-childhood obesity rates, asthma hospitalizations, and access to recreational facilities.
Statewide, the numbers show nearly one of every four children lived in poverty between 2005 and 2009, a 10 percent increase from 2000. The rates of preterm births and low-birthweight babies also increased. Overall, however, the numbers show improvement, particularly when it comes to children being covered by state or federal insurance. The number of children enrolled in KCHIP increased by 45 percent and in Medicaid more than 50 percent.
That data is supported by a reported released Tuesday by Georgetown University, which found the number of children without health insurance has dropped by 1 million nationwide in the past three years, Kelli Kennedy of The Associated Press reports. (Read more)
For an example of how to localize the data, click here. Mike James of The Independent in Ashland used it to assess the health status of children in Greenup, Carter and Boyd counties. He also spoke to a local school district and found officials will use the findings to bolster "requests for competitive grants that fund ... programs and ... identify gaps in services," he reports.
- Kids Count Report Says Hard Times In Early Childhood Are More Likely In Ky. Than Rest Of U.s.; Bad Times Have Long-term Effects
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News One of every five children in Kentucky, by the time they are 5 years old, has experienced two or more adverse childhood experiences such as child abuse, economic hardship, exposure to violence, living in a household...
- Kids Count Report Shows Where Children In Your County And School District Rank, In A Huge Number Of Measures
Conditions have improved slightly for Kentucky children, especially in education and health, and the state's overall well-being ranking has gone up one spot, from 35th to 34th in the nation. But economic conditions for young Kentuckians have...
- Children's Health And Education Improves In Kentucky, But One In Four Kids Lives In Poverty, Report Shows
New data show one in four Kentucky children live in poverty, a sharp increase since 2005, but the state is improving when it comes to children's health and education. These were the latest findings in the influential Kids Count report by the Annie...
- Infant Mortality, Pre-term Birth, Teenage Pregnancy, Children Living In Smokers' Homes All Drop Even As As Child Poverty Goes Up
Nationwide, the rates of infants who die, babies who are born prematurely, teens who are having babies, and the percentage of young children who live in a home where someone smokes have all decreased in the last five years. But the percentage of kids...
- Last Year, 17.4 Percent Of Kentuckians Lived In Poverty And 17.5 Percent Did Not Have Health Insurance
More than one in six Kentuckians lived in poverty last year and almost exactly the same number didn't have health insurance, preliminary U.S. Census numbers show. The state's poverty rate was 17.4 percent and the uninsured rate was...