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May 24, 2002

U.S. IMMUNIZATION NEWS

"U.S. Children's Lives Improved in 1990s"

Reuters (www.reuters.com) (05/23/02); Elsner, Alan

The Annie E. Casey Foundation, which publishes an annual report of child well-being in America, determined that throughout the 1990s fewer children were living in poverty, but still 15 percent of the children in America lived in low-income households. Twenty-two percent of U.S. two-year-old children in the 1990s had not received recommended immunizations and 14 percent of children lacked health insurance, according to the report.  However, teen births, infant mortality, childhood death rate, and death due to suicide or homicide all dropped during the decade, says the report.

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