The following Health indicators have been updated to include 2004 published and electronic final birth and death microdata from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Among these updates are data featured in the 2007 Right Start Report.
Health
Right Start Indicators
• Births, by Race
• Births to mothers who smoked during pregnancy (1989 standard birth certificate)*
• Births to mothers who smoked during pregnancy (2003 revised birth certificate)*
• Births to mothers with less than 12 years of education (1989 standard birth certificate)*
• Births to mothers with less than 12 years of education (2003 revised birth certificate)*
• Births to unmarried women
• Births to women receiving late or no prenatal care (1989 standard birth certificate)*
• Births to women receiving late or no prenatal care (2003 revised birth certificate)*
• Low-birthweight babies
• Percent births to females less than 20 years of age
• Preterm births
• Teen births to women who were already mothers
Other Health Indicators
• Child deaths
• Child deaths, by Race
• Infant mortality
• Infant mortality, by Race for the U.S.
• Low-birthweight babies, by Race for the U.S.
• Teen births, by Age Group
• Teen births, by Race for the U.S.
• Teen deaths by accident, homicide, and suicide
• Teen deaths from all causes
• Teen deaths from all causes, by Race for the U.S.
• Very Low-birthweight babies
*According to NCHS beginning in 2003, the adoption of the revised birth certificate in several states produced "substantive changes in both question wording and the sources for [some] information have resulted in data that are not comparable" with data for previous years. Indicators that are affected by these changes are therefore presented separately for states that used the 1989 standard birth certificate or adapted the 2003 revised birth certificate.
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