2023 Edition — Quality of Care: Children’s Health (California Health Care Foundation)

Summary

Published Date: January 27, 2023

Summary: This set of quality measures focuses on children’s health. According to 2021 California Health Interview Survey data, nearly one in two Latino/x adolescents and nearly two in five California adolescents overall were overweight or obese. One in five Latino/x and Black children was overweight for their age. Black children were more likely to have asthma and had much higher rates of asthma-related ED visits than children of other races/ethnicities.

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