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Well-Child Visits In 2004, children under the age of six without health insurance coverage were significantly less likely than children with health insurance coverage to have received a well-child check-up in the past year (66 percent versus 87 percent, respectively)...> View Indicator Health Care Coverage The percentage of all children under age 18 with private health insurance coverage decreased from 71 percent in 2000 to 65 percent in 2006. During the same time period, the percentage of children with Medicaid increased from 20 percent to 27 percent. Eighty-eight percent of children were covered by private or government health insurance in 2006...> View Indicator Immunization Following years of gradually increasing coverage, progress towards full immunization of all young preschoolers has stalled since 2004, standing at 82 percent in 2006... > View Indicator Late or No Prenatal Care The percentage of births to women receiving late or no prenatal care declined from 6.1 percent in 1990 to 3.6 percent by 2004 (preliminary estimate)...> View Indicator Unmet Dental Needs In 2004, more than 50 percent of children without health insurance had not seen a dentist in the past year, and more than one in five needed dental care but did not receive it for financial reasons. In contrast to children with insurance, 21 percent of uninsured children had unmet dental needs, compared with 4 percent of children covered by private insurance and 8 percent of those covered by public insurance (mostly Medicaid)...> View Indicator Male Infant Circumcision Between 2001 and 2003, the percentage of male infants who were circumcised in the hospital decreased from 63 percent to 56 percent, the lowest percentage recorded since 1979...> View Indicator
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