Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies/Healthy Children

• Indicators For Tracking Public Health Priority Areas

Objectives

Each community's progress towards reaching these Prevention Agenda Goals and Objectives will be tracked so members can see how close each community is to meeting the goals.

• By the year 2013, increase the percentage of women in New York who have received prenatal care in the first trimester to at least 90%. Baseline: 75.4%, Vital Statistics, 2005. (Healthy People 2010 Goal)
• By the year 2013, reduce the percent of New York births that are low birthweight (<2,500 grams) to no more than 5%. Baseline: 8.3%, Vital Statistics, 2005. (Healthy People 2010 Goal)
• By the year 2013, reduce New York's rate of infant deaths to no more than 4.5 deaths per 1,000 births. Baseline: 5.8/1,000, Vital Statistics, 2005. (Healthy People 2010 Goal)
• By the year 2013, increase the percentage of New York children, aged 19 to 35 months, who are fully immunized (4 DTaP, 3 Polio, 1 MMR, 3 Hib, 3 HepB) to at least 90%. Baseline: 83.5%, National Immunization Survey, 2006. (Healthy People 2010 Goal met - ninety percent is Healthy People 2010 Goal for individual vaccines for children)
• By the year 2013, increase the percentage of New York children who had at least one lead screening test by 36 months of age to at least 96%. Baseline: 77% NYS excl. NYC, NYS Childhood Lead Program data, 2002 birth cohort. (Healthy People 2010 Goal not available - twenty-five percent increase from the 2002 birth cohort baseline)
• By the year 2013, reduce the prevalence of tooth decay in New York 3rd grade children to no more than 42%. Baseline: 54.1%, NYS Oral Health Survey, 2004. (Healthy People 2010 Goal)
• By the year 2013, reduce New York's adolescent pregnancy rate (births, fetal deaths, and induced abortions) to no more than 28 per 1,000 females aged 15-17. Baseline: 36.5/1,000 females 15-17 yrs., Vital Statistics, 2005. (Healthy People 2010 Goal met - twenty five percent reduction from 2005 baseline)