Healthy Children
Georgia KIDS COUNT's indicators of child well-being for Healthy Children:
- *Low birthweight
- *Infant mortality (per 1,000)
- Eligible children enrolled in Medicaid or PeachCare
- Eligible children, birth through 4, enrolled in the WIC program
- *Child deaths, ages 1-14 (per 100,000)
- Teen pregnancies, ages 15-17 (per 1,000)
- *Teen births, ages 15-19 (per 1,000)
- Teen mothers giving birth to another child before age 20 (ages 15-19)
- Incidence of STD for youth ages 15-19 (per 1,000)
- *Teen deaths (ages 15-19 per 100,000)
- Teen deaths by homicide, suicide and accident (ages 15-19 per 100,000)
*National KIDS COUNT indicators
