21-12.
Increase the proportion of low-income children and adolescents who received any preventive dental service during the past year.
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21-12. | |
Increase the proportion of low-income children and adolescents who received any preventive dental service during the past year. |
Target: 57 percent.
Baseline: 20 percent of children and adolescents under age 19 years at or below 200 percent of the Federal poverty level received any preventive dental service in 1996.
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), AHRQ.
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Children Under Age 19
Years at or |
Preventive Dental Visit in Past 12 Months |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
20 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
DSU |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Asian |
DNC |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DNC |
|
Black or African American |
13 |
|
White |
25 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
16 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
DNA |
|
Black or African American |
DNA |
|
White |
DNA |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
21 |
|
Male |
19 |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.