Enables user to generate charts on the characteristics of children, age 0 to 17, for the United States and for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Allows for comparison of populations of children defined by the nativity and citizenship of the child or their parents. Data comes from the 2005 and 2006 American Community Survey.
"Play Hard. Don't Blink. is funded through the Ohio Department of Health Save Our Sight Program. The Save Our Sight Program was created to ensure that children in Ohio have good vision and healthy eyes. The program accomplishes this through the early identification of children with vision problems and the promotion of good eye health and safety."Advocates sports eye safety for children.
The Health Services Technology/Assessment Texts (HSTAT) is a free, Web-based resource of full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making. Each document within HSTAT is displayed in a series of bite-sized pieces, based on the subsections of the documents. A navigation bar on the left of each page allows the user to jump between document sections, documents or collections within HSTAT. Any Bookshelf page can be bookmarked as a "favorite" for future reference, or be linked to by another Web page. Citations within HSTAT documents that also have a PubMed or PubMed Central record are hyperlinked accordingly from the reference list.
"The Better Vision Institute, an advisory board comprised of ophthalmologists, optometrists and opticians, held its first-ever Vision Summit on April 3-4, 2007 in Washington, DC. The Summit focused on vision care for children."
CDC analyzed data from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to provide baseline data for three of the Healthy People 2010 objectives. This report summarizes these baselines.