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2020 Objectives for Healthy Kids

Chronic Disease

  • Increase the proportion of children 6-17 years who attain at least 60 minutes of physical activity five days per week from 72% to 80%.
  • Increase consumption of five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day from 13% to 28% in children 6-17 years.
  • Decrease the rate of overweight children 6-17 years from 12% to 8%.
  • Decrease the prevalence of asthma in children 2-17 years from 19% to 10%.

Infectious Disease

  • Decrease the chlamydia infection rate in Ypsilanti teenagers 15-19 years from 3,345 per 100,000 to 1,201 per 100,000.
  • Increase the proportion of females who have received the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine by age 16 from 0% to 75%.
  • Increase the annual influenza vaccination rate in children 6-59 months from 65% to 90%.
  • Increase the proportion of children 19-35 months who are fully immunized from 73% to 90%.

Substance Abuse

  • Reduce the proportion of high school students who are current smokers from 17% to 10%.
  • Reduce the proportion of middle school students who had at least one drink of alcohol during the past month from 14% to 7%.
  • Reduce the proportion of middle school students who have ever used marijuana from 23% to 10%.

Mental Health

  • Increase from 76% to 85% the proportion of middle school students with a “C” average or lower who have at least one supportive adult in their lives.
  • Reduce the proportion of middle school students who have ever had suicidal thoughts from 23% to 10%.
  • Reduce suicide attempt rates in middle school students who have ever used marijuana from 22% to 9%.

Injury

  • Reduce the substantiated child abuse rate for children under 18 years from 366 per 100,000 to 275 per 100,000.
  • Reduce the sexual assault rate in females 19 years or younger from 242 per 100,000 to 121 per 100,000.

Perinatal Health

  • Increase the proportion of low-income females 18-49 years who initiate breastfeeding from 47% to 75%.
  • Decrease the mortality rate in Black infants from 16 per 1,000 live births to 5 per 1,000 live births.
  • Decrease low birth weight rates in Black infants from 11% to 3% of live births.

Develop surveillance for:

  • Asthma emergency department visits
  • Anxiety and disruptive disorders