National Child Health Day
Today is National Child Health Day!
Here at kidsdata.org and the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, we tip our hats to organizations nationwide that are working to improve the mental, emotional, behavioral, and physical health of children.
Here are some facts about kids in California that you might be interested to know:
- There are nearly 10 million children in California.
- Of those, 14.5% have special health care needs, according to 2007 data.
- Mental health problems accounted for nearly as many hospitalizations of kids 0-17 as asthma in 2007.
- In 2008, 18.5% of California children lived in poverty.
- California’s youth suicide rate in ’05-’07 was one-third lower than it was 10 years earlier.
If you’re interested in learning more about children’s health at the national level, the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative offers a useful web resource for nationwide data.
Does your organization work on behalf of kids? Tell us how!
Posted by Felicity Simmons
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