I thought that everyone might like to see the most current North Carolina stats. Every year North Carolina puts out the North Carolina Child Health Report Card. The Current stats were put out in the last month the data is based on 2003 data because it takes so long to compile and investigate all of the data and then this date is showed in comparison to 1999. This "report card is put out by The North Carolina Institute of medicine and North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute. So here we go:
2003 / 1999

% of all NC children (0-17) uninsured 8.2% / 11.2%

% of infant deaths per 100 live births
All 8.2% / 9.3%
White 5.9% / 6.4%
Other Races 14.0% / 16.3%

# of newly reported communicable diseases
Syphilis 19 / 22
HIV/AIDS 2 / 6
Tuberculosis 22 / 24

# of cildren (age 0-3) enrolled in early
intervention services to reduce effects of
developmental delay, emotional
disturbance, and/or chronic illness 10,504 / 8,187

# of children receiving assessments for
and neglect 107,157 / 98,696
confirmed deaths due to abuse 27 / 26

child fatality
# of deaths per 100,000 children (age 0-17) 73.3 / 86.4

Deaths due to injury
motor vehicle 162 / 186
drowning 28 / 25
fire 18 /17
bike 11 / 14
suicide 23 / 30
homicide 46 / 48
guns 40 / 49

# of teen pregnancies per 1,000 girls (age 15-17)
All 38.3 / 54.1
White 30.8 / 41.8
Other races 54.2 / 81.1

Hope you are still awake, I know the list is long but I thought some of you could use these stats sometime.

Thanks for the information. One good thing is that the numbers, while still higher than we want, seem to be going down. With more public awareness maybe we can get the numbers to go even lower when they publish the next report card.