Notes
Seattle-King County Department of Public Health, Epidemiology Planning and Evaluation Unit, August 1998 Public Health Data Watch report summarizing health status of King County residents in 1996. Covers infant mortality trends by race/ethnicity, prenatal care access (first trimester rates 1981-1996), teenage birth and pregnancy rates among African Americans ages 15-17, childhood immunization rates, AIDS new cases and deaths 1987-1996, sexually transmitted disease trends including gonorrhea (down 78% since 1987), chlamydia, syphilis, and genital herpes, childhood asthma, cancer, heart disease, illicit-drug-related deaths, smoking during pregnancy, and health disparities by socioeconomic status and region within King County. Compares King County 1996 rates to national rates and U.S. Year 2000 targets.