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Health Insurance and Coverage Programs Health Care Delivery Systems Health Care Financing Health Status and Issues Death Rates Maternal and Child Health Communicable Diseases Chronic Conditions Health Behaviors Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities Governance	Maternal and Child Health Maternal and child health continue to be issues of concern, especially with respect to health disparities. For example, the infant mortality rate (IMR), a significant measure of health outcomes, decreased by nearly 13 percent for the county over the past 10 years. Compared to the national rate, L.A. County’s IMR is surprisingly low, reflecting the influence of the growing Latino population with a lower IMR, and the fact that nearly nine out ten percent of women began prenatal care in the first trimester. However, the IMR was twice as high for African Americans, and the IMR in SPA 1 (Antelope Valley) was nearly double the county rate. Publications and Documents Nov 01 2005 Coalition for a Healthy California Tobacco Tax, Disease Prevention and Children's Health Insurance Act of 2006 Sep 21 2005 Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, L.A. County Department of Health Services (DHS) Obstetrics and Pediatric Patients at King/Drew Medical Center (KDMC) Sep 01 2005 Theresa Hastert, Susan Babey, Allison Diamant and E. Richard Brown, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research More California Teens Consume Soda and Fast Food Daily Than Five Servings of Fruits and Vegetables Aug 15 2005 Maternal and Child Health Access Fact Sheet: Maternal and Child Health and King/Drew Medical Center (KDMC) Aug 05 2005 Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, L.A. County Department of Health Services (DHS) Recommendations for the Future of the King/Drew Medical Center (KDMC) Aug 04 2005 Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, L.A. County Department of Health Services (DHS) Recommendations for the Future of the King/Drew Medical Center (KDMC) Aug 01 2005 California Center for Public Health Advocacy The Growing Epidemic: Child Overweight Rates on the Rise in California Assembly Districts Apr 20 2005 L.A. County Department of Health Services (DHS), Public Health, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health California MCAH Family Outcomes Project Apr 13 2005 Michael Rodriguez, Marlena Kane, Lupe Alonzo-Diaz and George Flores, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California One out of Three Latino Adolescents Overweight or At Risk Apr 01 2005 Susan H. Babey, Allison Diamant, E. Richard Brown and Theresa Hastert , UCLA Center for Health Policy Research California Adolescents Increasingly Inactive Page 13 of 15 pages « First < 11 12 13 14 15 >	Search the Library Advanced Search RSS Subscribe to Maternal and Child Health

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