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COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

Providing Parenting Classes in Polk County

Healthy Start clients at an “Educational Nuggets for Parents” class.

Polk County Healthy Start recently began offering parenting classes to clients. The program identified a need to offer classes covering a variety of parenting topics and then launched “Educational Nuggets for Parents,” an educational series of monthly group parenting classes. Classes are offered in both English and Spanish.

What's New

2016 vital statistics are now available on CHARTS-- births, deaths, fetal and infant deaths, marriages and dissolutions of marriage
Traffic crash data from Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
A new Birth Atlas was added to CHARTS.
HIV/AIDS cases for 2016.
Fatal Injury Profile Report
Birth Defects Profile

CHARTS Quick Facts

In Florida, 86% of all babies born in 2016 were breastfed initially.
Hispanic mothers were more likely than white, black or non-Hispanic mothers to breastfed their babies in 2016 (90.4%).
Mothers with a high school education or more had the highest rates of breastfeeding.
The National Immunization Survey reports that the percentage of Florida mothers who exclusively breastfed their babies for three months increased from 27.8% in 2007 to 44.9% in 2016.
The National Immunization Survey reports that the percentage of Florida mothers who breastfed their babies for six months increased from 37.5% in 2007 to 47.3% in 2016.
August 1–7 is World Breastfeeding Week

Estimated Births

*Since Jan 01,

138234.514492754

Did You Know?

CHARTS has over 19 county and state profile reports that provide a one-stop list of related health statistics for each county.
Communicable diseases are diseases that can be spread from one person to another or from an animal to a person.
Certain communicable diseases are reported nationally so that they can be stopped before they become widespread.
FLHealthCHARTS has community health maps that provide data by zip code and census tract.
New Population, Mortality and Birth Atlases were recently enhanced and now feature more data and improved visual displays of quantitative data.