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Title: Child


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Child Adolescent Health
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Why focus on youth?
  • What are the top three causes of death currently
    in the U.S.?
  • Heart disease
  • Stroke
  • Cancer
  • What do these have in common?

3
Is this different for youth?
  • What are the top four causes of death among youth
    in the U.S.?
  • Motor vehicle accidents
  • Unintentional injuries
  • Homicide
  • Suicide

4
CDC Six classifications
  • Risk behavior
  • Unhealthy dietary behaviors
  • Physical inactivity
  • Unhealthy sexual behaviors
  • Tobacco use
  • Alcohol and other drug use
  • Behaviors resulting in unintentional
    injury/violence

5
Americas Youth
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Why focus on children adolescents?
  • Unique population especially this generation.
  • The first to
  • Understand terrorism as a domestic issue
  • Compete fully in a global economy
  • Experience instantaneous communication with the
    world
  • Grow up with the majority living a portion of
    childhood in a single parent household
  • Live their entire lives in the shadow of AIDS
  • ?????

7
Youth defined according to WHO
  • Children
  • 0 10
  • Young People
  • 10 24
  • Adolescence
  • 10 19
  • Youth
  • 15 24
  • Note Adolescence a period of time in the
    lifespan Adolescents the youth experiencing
    adolescence.

8
National Statistics
  • Americas Children Key National Indicators of
    Well-Being 2011 Report
  • In 2010, 74.2 million children 0-17 y/o
  • Children/adolescents equal 24 of population.

http//childstats.gov/
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Racial and Ethnic Diversity
  • In 2010,
  • 53.5 White, Non-Hispanic
  • 23.1 Hispanic
  • 14.0 African-American
  • 4.3 Asian
  • 5.2 Other

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Family and Social Environment
  • In 2010,
  • 66 of children lived with two married parents
  • 23 of children lived with single mother
  • 3 lived with single father
  • 4 lived with neither parent

www.familydiversity.org
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Family/Social Environment continued
  • Child care
  • In 2010,
  • 20 of children had at least one foreign-born
    parent
  • In 2009,
  • 21 spoke a language other than English at home

12
More family/social environment
  • Adolescent births
  • In 2009, adolescent birth rate 20.1/1,000 (15-17
    y/o)
  • The good news bad news
  • Child Maltreatment
  • In 2009,
  • 10 / 1,000 children 0-17 y/o were maltreated
    (substantiated reports)

13
Economic Circumstances
  • In 2009,
  • 21 of children (0-17 y/o) lived in poverty
  • 72 of children had at least one parent who
    worked full time, year round
  • 23 of children lived in food insecure households

www.awarenessmonths.com
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Health Care
  • In 2009,
  • 90 of children (0-17 y/o) had health insurance
    coverage at some time during the year
  • 84 of children (5-17 y/o) visited the dentist

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Physical Environment Safety
  • Outdoor air quality
  • In 2009, 59 of children lived in counties with
    detectable air pollutants
  • Drinking water
  • About 7 of children continue to live without
    clean drinking water
  • Environmental tobacco
  • About 17 of children still live in homes with
    ETS.
  • Housing
  • Inadequate housing
  • Overcrowding
  • Homeless

16
Behavior
  • Tobacco use continues to decline but
  • Alcohol use continues to decline but
  • Illicit Drug use

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Behavior continued
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Education
  • Reading
  • Math
  • In 2009,
  • 90 of 18-24 y/o completed high school or GED
  • 70 of those immediately enrolled in 2 or 4 year
    college

20
Health
  • The infant mortality rate
  • Continued to decline
  • In 2007 2008,
  • 19 of 6-17 y/o were obese
  • The bad news
  • Physical limitation
  • Diet quality
  • Asthma
  • Adolescent depression

21
Special Feature Adoption
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Adoption continued
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Adoption
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