2010 Report On Child Health Of America Gives Different Conclusions

2010 Report On Child Health Of America Gives Different Conclusions.
In an annual come in gauging the form and well-being of America's children, a society of 22 federal agencies reports progress in some areas, preterm births and teen pregnancies in particular, but spoilt news in other areas, like the number of teens living in poverty. "This boom is a status update on how our nation's children are faring, and it represents large segments of the population," Dr Alan E Guttmacher, acting headman of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said during a iron conference.

The report, titled America's Children In Brief: Key Indicators of Well-Being, 2010, was released July 9, 2010. According to the report, in 2009 there were 74,5 million individuals under 18 years of epoch living in the United States. That troop is up 2 million since 2000. Seventy percent of those children lived in households with two parents, while 26 percent lived with just one parent. Four percent of the nation's children white-hot without either parent.

One of the most pontifical findings from the study was a stop in the rate of preterm births. "There was a decline in the number of preterm births, and the decline was seen in each of the three largest tribal and ethnic groups," said Edward Sondik, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, during the mob conference.

The preterm extraction rate - babies born before 37 weeks of gestation - dropped from 12,7 percent in 2007 to 12,3 percent in 2008. This is the wink straight decline after years of steadily increasing rates of preterm birth, according to the report.

According to Sondik, "the etiology of preterm origination is completely complex and it's hard to know for sure which factors are responsible for this dip". Dr Diane Ashton, envoy medical director for the March of Dimes, said some enquiry suggests that a reduction in the number of elective Cesarean births done before 39 weeks of gestation may be at least part of the reason that preterm birth rates are going down.