Children Now Scorecard Offers ‘Fingerprint’ of Child Health Across California

The scorecard offers a unique fingerprint of how children are faring in each county in California.

Noting that no two counties are alike in California with regard to children’s health, Children Now recently released its 2010 California County Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being.

The scorecard offers a “fingerprint” for each county in California, showing each county’s performance in a range of areas of child well being, relative to other counties’ performance. Counties are organized according to rural or urban status and, within that, high- or low-income.  The 26 measures in the scorecard include education, safety, substance use, connectedness to school, and many others. Data about breastfeeding and prenatal care are cited from kidsdata.org. Check out all the indicators here: http://www.childrennow.org/subsites/publications/invest/scorecard10/scorecard10_home.htm.

And, view each county’s fingerprint at http://www.childrennow.org/subsites/publications/invest/scorecard10/scorecard10_comparison.htm

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Posted by Felicity Simmons

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