An initiative by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement to illustrate demographic and health statistics information for Arkansas children under age 18.
Key takeaways
For every 100 Children under age 18:
- 87 report excellent or very good health and 13 report good, fair, or poor health
- 55 receive free lunch, 8 receive reduced lunch, and 37 do not receive either
- 25 live in food insecure households and 75 do not
- 26 use cigarettes, cigars, or smokeless tobacco and 74 do not
- 34 are obese or overweight and 66 are not
- 43 have private coverage, 49 have public coverage, 4 have private and public coverage, and 4 are uninsured
- 75 had preventive dental visits in the past year and 25 did not
- 67 have appropriate immunizations and 33 do not
- 6 have asthma, 3 previously had asthma but currently do not, and 91 have never had asthma
References
- U.S. Census Bureau. 2016 American community survey 1-year estimates [Data query]. Retrieved from https://factfinder.census.gov
- Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) Data Center. 2017-2018 Free/reduced/paid lunch counts by county (child nutrition reports) [Data set]. Retrieved from http://www.arkansased.gov/divisions/fiscal-and-administrative-services/e-rate/free-and-reduced-school-lunch-data
- Arkansas Department of Education (ADE). 2016 School Graduation Rate [Data set]. Retrieved from http://www.arkansased.gov/divisions/public-school-accountability/school-performance/graduation-rate
- Arkansas Department of Health (ADH). (2017, April 19). Tobacco data deck 2017 [Presentation]. Retrieved from http://www.healthy.arkansas.gov/images/uploads/pdf/Tobacco_Data_Deck_May_2017.pdf
- Trust for America’s Health and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (2017 August). The state of obesity 2017. Retrieved from https://stateofobesity.org/files/stateofobesity2017.pdf
- Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health. 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) [Data query]. Retrieved from childhealthdata.org
- Kaiser Family Foundation. Percent of children age 19-35 months who are immunized. Retrieved from https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/percent-who-are-immunized/?currentTimeframe=0&selectedRows=%7B%22states%22:%7B%22arkansas%22:%7B%7D%7D%7D&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D