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Challenges:
• Low immunization coverage
• High geographic disparity within the state
Challenges include a high rate of uninsured population at 15.6 percent, low immunization coverage with 85.0 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving immunizations and high geographic disparity within the state at 15.8 percent. Colorado ranks lower for determinants than for outcomes, indicating that overall healthiness may decline over time.
Significant Changes:
(DOWN) In the past year, immunization coverage decreased from 92.1 percent to 85.0 percent of children ages 19 to 35 months receiving immunizations.
(DOWN) In the past five years, the prevalence of smoking decreased from 20.0 percent to 17.0 percent of the population.
(UP) In the past ten years, the percentage of children in poverty increased from 11.6 percent to 18.2 percent of persons under age 18
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conifermtman wrote: Illegal Aliens
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MONTERREY, MEXICO – If parents here are late getting their child inoculated, a public-health nurse will come to their home, pull down the youngster's pants and give the vaccination right there in the living room. If the parents are away at work, the nurse does not wait for them to come home and give permission. Shots are given anyway, and the paperwork is left with the baby sitter.
Babies are given their first immunizations - against polio and tuberculosis - in the hospital right after birth. They also receive a government-issued National Vaccination Record, on which the vaccines they receive throughout their lives will be tallied. The vaccine record must be presented in order to enter school, to get passports or other identification papers and even to get some jobs and loans.
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Really? You actually believe those not numbers? Naive.Science Chic wrote: Really Viking? You might want to check the stats before stating what you seem to know for sure. Mexico actually has a higher vaccination rate than we do here in the US, and has had since 1996, except for last year and 1997.
http://apps.who.int/immunization_monito ... gedtp3.htm Starting with 2009 and going backward by year, percent vaccinated:
Mexico: 89 96 98 98 98 98 98 97 97 97 96 96 95 95 91 91 82 90 88 53 65 60 62 51 40 52 41 40 43 44
The US:95 95 95 95 96 96 96 94 94 94 96 96 96 95 95 94 88 83 86 90 94 97 97 97 96 97 97 96 96 96
http://www.vaccinationnews.com/DailyNew ... More22.htm
Mexico more effective than U.S. at immunizing children
Mexico's paternalistic approach has led to a 96% vaccination rate for children ages 1 to 4, compared with 79% of American 2-year-olds.
By EDWARD HEGSTROM
Houston Chronicle
Sunday, December 22, 2002MONTERREY, MEXICO – If parents here are late getting their child inoculated, a public-health nurse will come to their home, pull down the youngster's pants and give the vaccination right there in the living room. If the parents are away at work, the nurse does not wait for them to come home and give permission. Shots are given anyway, and the paperwork is left with the baby sitter.
Babies are given their first immunizations - against polio and tuberculosis - in the hospital right after birth. They also receive a government-issued National Vaccination Record, on which the vaccines they receive throughout their lives will be tallied. The vaccine record must be presented in order to enter school, to get passports or other identification papers and even to get some jobs and loans.
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No, I don't actually entirely believe them, they vary widely if you are breaking it down further into age groups or specific immunizations, and vary between the country's self reporting (interestingly, the US page is missing a huge chunk of data) and the WHO's assessments. But the point is that Viking makes assumptions/statements based on his own beliefs and then doesn't even bother to find out if those assumptions are based in reality or not before posting.conifermtman wrote: Really? You actually believe those not numbers? Naive.
No country in the world is at a 0% vaccination rate. Mexico and the lower US used to have big problems with passing disease outbreaks back and forth until Mexico clamped down and forced people to immunize - we'd call it an invasion of our privacy if our government operated as they do! But people just assume that because Mexico is poor and not as technologically advanced, and they have personal problems with some other unrelated issue concerning that country - illegal immigration - so they already think the worst of the country as a whole - that they are backwards and don't even vaccinate at all? That's just dumb, sorry to be blunt about it.The Viking wrote: Very good point. They don't have to get their kids vaccinized before sneaking across the border. Another great contribution to America from the South!
And how does this answer have anything to do with the health of a state? Violent crime? Unemployment? Uninsured? Because none of the stats are broken out by subcriteria of legal or illegal. I suppose you can compare states with higher numbers of illegal immigrants to states with lower illegal immigrants, but this article's not going to tell you if it's the illegal immigrants who are increasing the violent crimes, or number of insured, etc unless you start digging further. Again, it's an assumption unless backed by stats.conifermtnman" wrote: Illegal Aliens
lol cum hoc ergo propter hoc - correlation proves causation is a logical fallacy by which two events that occur together are claimed to have a cause-and-effect relationshipHEARTLESS wrote: SC, based on the evidence you presented, there is only one conclusion. High immunization rates result in poor economies.
I've got this science thing down.
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